The Berman Method
The Berman Method
Episode #188: Special Guest Stella June Reveals All
Ever wondered if we're overthinking health? Our latest episode features the most unexpected wellness expert we've ever hosted – my five-year-old daughter, Stella June.
What began as a fun family episode quickly transformed into something profound as Stella articulated health concepts with stunning clarity. "Broccoli and oranges," she declared when asked what's healthy, followed by her understanding that proteins are non-negotiable dinner components. While healthcare conglomerates develop complex wellness protocols, Stella reminds us that eating vegetables, drinking water, playing outside, and taking simple preventative measures form the foundation of good health.
This conversation arrives at a perfect moment as we continue our mission of "treating problems, not symptoms" at The Berman Method. Stella's uncomplicated wisdom stands in stark contrast to our medical system where "a patient cured is a customer lost" – highlighting how profit motives often obscure basic health truths. Her insights about post-dinner walks for blood sugar regulation, the importance of hydration, and vitamin supplementation for immune support demonstrate how intuitive health knowledge can be before it gets complicated by corporate interests.
Between delightful family moments (including appearances from sister Vera), we explore how children naturally understand connections between nutrition, movement, sleep, and immunity. Stella's closing advice to "go outside, find fruit trees, pick something, wash it, and eat it" might be the most straightforward nutrition guidance you'll hear from any health expert.
What health basics have you overcomplicated in your life? Share your thoughts after listening, and don't forget to subscribe for more episodes challenging conventional healthcare wisdom. For specialized guidance, visit www.bermanpt.com or reach out directly for personalized health support.
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 go, baby, the Berman Method Podcast, where we're focused on treating problems and not symptoms. We're David going against Goliath, where Goliath's the corporate medical system, big pharma, the health insurance companies. They do not have your best interests in mind. They will choose profits over patient outcomes every single time Because, think about it, a patient cured is a customer lost. It's that simple. It's simple business. We've got a very special episode today. I have no idea how this is going to go. Our editor, our podcast editor, might have his work cut out for him on this episode, because we've got my co host, jenny Berman.
Speaker 1:Physician assistant Walker, ryan Berman and all the babies.
Speaker 2:And another very special podcast. Who are you? Another guest, what's your name?
Speaker 3:Stella June.
Speaker 2:Good job. So Stella June is here with us today. We thought that we would ask the expert.
Speaker 1:Who else is here?
Speaker 2:Yeah, we got Vera over there yelling in the background. I don't know if her voice will get picked up or not. So we're going to ask Stella some very important questions today, because you're how old now? Five. When did you turn five?
Speaker 3:On April 26th.
Speaker 2:Good job. And where did we go for your birthday? Everglades City, everglades City.
Speaker 3:Everglades City.
Speaker 2:What was your favorite part there?
Speaker 3:Swimming in the pool and going to the beach and making a friend.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we made a new friend at the beach. That was so much fun. And then, what about dessert?
Speaker 3:Yeah, I liked the dessert too. Yeah, I like dessert too.
Speaker 2:I think Daddy liked it too.
Speaker 1:Shout out to Epiphany Bakery in Naples Totally gluten-free, dairy-free cookies that we got for your big birthday, right, mom? Did you like the cookies? I loved the cookies. They were very good. They had chocolate chip. I loved the cookies. They were very good, they had chocolate chip. We had flour cookies.
Speaker 3:I liked the flour ones.
Speaker 2:The flour ones, and we had cake.
Speaker 1:We did have a gluten-free and dairy-free cake the night before we went to Everglades City, didn't we?
Speaker 2:And the night after.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 3:I liked the cake too.
Speaker 1:You like the cake too.
Speaker 2:Yeah, good, so why don't we get started? What's the first question that we're gonna ask the expert, stella June, now that she's five, she is the expert and we figured that it's time. There's no better time than right now to get started.
Speaker 1:That's right. She's an immaculate leader. We all know this. She has fantastic leadership skills, so we thought that she would be great on the podcast today. So, stella, I'm going to ask you a couple of questions, and you got to give me the answers, okay, okay. First question is what do you think is healthy?
Speaker 3:Broccoli and oranges.
Speaker 1:Broccoli and oranges are healthy. So that's a fruit or a vegetable and a fruit. Are those healthy?
Speaker 3:Yeah, what do you eat for dinner that's healthy Carrots, broccoli and green beans.
Speaker 1:Those are very healthy vegetables. What else?
Speaker 3:What else do we say you have to eat off your plate every night.
Speaker 2:What else?
Speaker 1:I don't even know what do you tell me? You have to eat off your plate Carrots, your protein. Do you have to eat your protein off your plate?
Speaker 3:Yes, and I don't like protein.
Speaker 1:You like protein. What kind of protein did you have last night? That was delicious that we brought home from Everglades City. Did we bring home some fish? Yeah, and you liked that fish, huh, yeah.
Speaker 2:Fresh snook.
Speaker 1:Mm-hmm yeah.
Speaker 2:Daddy's favorite fish ever. Shout out to Mike. Thank you, Captain, Mike, for sharing your winnings. Worn one first place in the fishing tournament down there and we were the lucky beneficiaries of that.
Speaker 1:Thank you, Mike. All right, ready for your next question. What do we do after dinner? That's healthy for us.
Speaker 3:Go outside and go for a walk, because that makes us healthy and strong. That's very good. I learned that at school.
Speaker 1:Oh, you learned that at school. So we go for a walk after dinner as a family, yeah, and then what do we do? We go to bed. Well, what do we do in between walking and bath time? Usually Do we get to play outside.
Speaker 3:Yeah, we get to play outside.
Speaker 1:What's your favorite thing to do outside?
Speaker 3:Play in my Jeep and jump on the trampoline and swing under the monkey bars.
Speaker 1:That's right, you love doing all that every night.
Speaker 2:Play in your Jeep, because now you're five and now you can drive by yourself. We're still waiting for your driver's license to come in. But don't ask, don't tell. I won't tell if you won't tell.
Speaker 3:I really want my driver's license, because I want my driver's license for my Jeep, and that's not fair. Everybody else gets one.
Speaker 1:Well, we will work on a driver's license for you. How about that? Yeah, do we have any listeners out there that can send Stella June a driver's license?
Speaker 2:Yeah, can we get a driver's license for Stella June Berman date April 26, 2020. Height 3 feet 7 inches. Weight, 42 pounds. Am I close?
Speaker 1:No, no, she might be 3 foot 5, but I think we're at about 32 pounds.
Speaker 2:Oh, come on, I was within 20%.
Speaker 1:All right, you ready for your next question. So we got to eat our healthy foods, our fruits, our vegetables, our proteins. We go for a walk after dinner to help with our blood sugar regulation, because it's healthy for us. What is the best thing to drink during the day?
Speaker 3:Pink water, because I like pink water.
Speaker 1:You do like your pink water, so water is really important, right?
Speaker 3:Yeah, because it's healthy.
Speaker 1:What happens if you don't drink enough water.
Speaker 3:You get sick.
Speaker 1:That's true. You can get sick if you don't drink enough water and you drink pink water because you get to drink some of the amino acids in your water right.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, and the amino acids are healthy.
Speaker 1:That's right. What do mommy and daddy do every day? That's healthy for them.
Speaker 3:Make coffee and kind of work out.
Speaker 1:Very good. Do we work out every morning? Yeah, do you work out with us sometimes?
Speaker 3:I did when I was three, but now I don't because of the bugs.
Speaker 1:Oh, the bugs get you out there. What about on Sundays? Do you work out with us on Sundays?
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 1:What do you do?
Speaker 3:I play for a little bit, then I do tap shoulders and then I just do push-ups on the blue things on the blue box.
Speaker 1:On the blue boxes. Yeah, and we drink our Rye's mushroom coffee. It's on the blue things on the blue box, on the blue boxes. Yeah, and we drink our Rye's mushroom coffee. So if you want a discount, you just go to the Rye's website and use code BermanWellness15 for a discount off of your Rye's mushroom coffee. They have chai tea, they have hot cocoa, they have coffee.
Speaker 3:I love hot cocoa, because then we get to have mushrooms and marshmallows, and then when it's Christmas, yeah, that's right, very good.
Speaker 1:Why do we take vitamins?
Speaker 3:Because they're healthy, and when somebody's sick, they won't get us sick.
Speaker 1:That's right. So if we take our vitamins we won't get Walker sick and we won't get our friends sick.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Or we won't get sick from our friends.
Speaker 3:Or if somebody's sick at work, or if you're Walker or somebody's sick or like me, or dad or you, we won't get sick.
Speaker 1:That's right.
Speaker 3:I know there's yucky vitamins that I don't like in the out-closet, but you're hiding them, so I don't think I will have to take them.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we don't have any yucky vitamins because now we have the Mary Roos vitamins that you love and we carry the Mary Roos vitamins in the office now, which they make vitamins for adults in liquid form. They make vitamins for kids in liquid and gummy forms, very clean, healthy vitamins. So we now carry the Mary Ruth's products in the office. So if you're interested in vitamins for yourself or your children, we have options for multivitamins helping boost the immune system and attention and focus vitamin that Stella takes every morning to help with focusing right and that liquid vitamin you take, that one every morning.
Speaker 3:And that liquid vitamin. You take that one every morning, yeah, and also, if you go outside you can get sick. And also you guys can if you eat healthy stuff that has juice, that's in the fruit juice, that's in the fruit, it it also has outside like taste, and then you guys won't even get sick, no matter, you don't go outside either. If, if you don't have time to go outside, if you forget to go outside in the morning and at night, you guys won't get sick if you guys get fruit that has outside juice.
Speaker 1:So vitamins will help your immune system, just in case you don't have enough time to go outside to be healthy, right, yeah, very good, just in case you forget stuff. Good, very good, wow, what else?
Speaker 2:Do we have any other questions we need to ask the expert before Vera falls on your microphone wire and interrupts this episode.
Speaker 1:Yeah, she's really close over here.
Speaker 3:And Mom. She has nothing to paint on because she might paint on my homework book that I'm letting you guys learn, the letters. She might paint on them and she might paint on the colorings.
Speaker 1:And she can't Got it. Thank you, we're good. So now we know who Stella takes after.
Speaker 2:It took her about seven seconds to get warmed up to the idea of talking to this microphone, and now she will not let it go. So she definitely takes after jenny and not me, oh yeah right, uh-huh, says the one who just likes hearing his voice all right, say one more thing, stella, then we're gonna do some other stuff. What is one more thing that you want everybody to know how to be really, really healthy?
Speaker 3:because now you're five and you know everything you have to go outside and and if you see an apple tree or a fruit tree, you just pick some stuff and when you take it inside you have to wash it and then you guys can eat it I think that's some really really good closing statements.
Speaker 2:So, everybody, let's give Stella June a round of applause and Vera Kay another round of applause, because she's about to create a disaster over here. Okay.
Speaker 1:We're about to have paint everywhere. All right, thank you, stella June, for being our guest expert today on being healthy. I think you did a great job, can?
Speaker 2:you say have a good day. Have a good day.
Speaker 1:Say ciao for now.
Speaker 3:Ciao for now.
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