Inspired Living for Women: Conversations With Women Over 40

The Inflammation Crisis No One’s Talking About — And Why Women 40+ Must Pay Attention

• Lauri Wakefield • Episode 27

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 In this episode of Inspired Living for Women, Laura Owen—author of The Reset Code and a trailblazing entrepreneur in business, healthcare, and public service—uncovers the hidden epidemic of chronic inflammation and its toll on women’s health. In a grounded, eye-opening conversation, Laura explains how this persistent, often overlooked condition drives the “trifecta” of diabetes, heart disease, and liver dysfunction—especially in women over 40. She explores how our broken “sick care” system fails us, and why addressing root causes through lifestyle, purpose, and community is key to lasting change. Her insights offer not just information, but hope—for healing, clarity, and powerful midlife reinvention. 

Topics Discussed:

  • Laura’s mission to expose chronic inflammation as the silent driver behind diabetes, heart disease, and liver damage
  • The staggering truth about metabolic syndrome—and why most pre-diabetic Americans don’t even know they’re at risk
  • How our current healthcare and food systems keep people sick, medicated, and uninformed
  • Why community, purpose, and a root-cause approach are essential to lasting midlife health and transformation

Key Takeaways:

  • Chronic inflammation often goes unnoticed—but it’s a root cause of many serious health issues and can be reversed.
  • Awareness is power: understanding your risk for metabolic syndrome can help you take action before symptoms appear.
  • You don’t need more willpower—you need a deeper “why” and a supportive community to make lasting change.
  • True healthcare starts with root-cause healing, not prescriptions—and women over 40 deserve better.

Noteworthy Quotes from Laura:

“We don’t have healthcare—we have sick care. The system is built to diagnose and prescribe, not to prevent or heal.”

“What we put in our mouths every day is either medicine or poison. It’s that simple.”

“You can’t change what you don’t acknowledge. That’s the first step—and it’s where real hope begins.”

“By the time women reach midlife, we often ask, ‘Where did I go?’ The loss of identity, purpose, and confidence can be just as damaging as any diagnosis.”

Laura's Bio: Laura Owen is the author of The Reset Code and Founder/CEO of HealthyID®, with a career spanning business, healthcare, and public service—including her role as Kansas Secretary of Commerce. A tech co-founder and visionary leader, she’s dedicated to helping people take ownership of their health through intentional living and root-cause wellness. Known for her clarity, courage, and bold vision, Laura blends strategic insight with a deep commitment to empowering others to lead healthier, more purposeful lives.

More About Laura:
Website: theresetcode.net
Follow Laura on LinkedIn
Book: The Reset Code: 10 Steps to Unlock Your Best Health & Life



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Lauri Wakefield [00:00:41]:
Hi. Welcome to the Inspired Living for Women podcast. Thanks for joining me today. I'm your host, Lori Wakefield, and my guest today is Laura Owen. Would you like to say hi, Lauren? Laura. So Laura is a visionary entrepreneur. She's the author of the Reset Code and founder and CEO of Healthy Idiot. She is a former Kansas Secretary of Commerce and tech company founder. Laura brings decades of leadership in business, healthcare, and public service. Through innovative wellness programs and strategic guidance. She helps people take ownership of their health and live with greater intention. Known for her clarity, resilience, and bold vision, Laura leads with courage and conviction. You certainly do. We had a nice conversation. We had a really nice conversation before we started recording. As we were saying, let's start with your work history, spent a little bit of time there, and then we'll get into what you're actually doing today. So you. Your career began in public service. You were the Kansas Secretary of Commerce. You want to talk about that for a minute? Sure.

Laura Owen [00:01:41]:
Actually, my career began before that. And I don't even put this in my LinkedIn profile because the profile would be a book. Right. I told you that my kids often say, mom, you're older than dirt. That's why you've had time to do all this stuff. So actually, my career started way before that and so many years ago. I was a CFP and an RIA and a Series 7, all those things. So basically a financial advisor. And I did that for many years. I owned a couple of businesses. One of the businesses was a travel insurance company that I started that I sold to Travel Guard. So we became the third largest in the United States. That was a rocking company. But I've done the different things. Yes, I was Secretary of Commerce in Kansas. I love that. It was an incredible opportunity. I have owned and operated some other businesses and other industries. You mentioned my tech company that I co founded. That company is a company that we took public. And for listeners who have not been in the backseat of a police car, they may not know police cars all have cameras. Today, so our system, we were the first that went digital in the world. And so instead of operating one car, one camera, rather on a vcr, we operated three cameras in the car on, in a digital format. So lots of advantages to that for police. And I have the patents for live streaming the video. So that was a great ride. Love, love that.

Lauri Wakefield [00:03:02]:
Yeah. I was going to say the name of that business was icop?

Laura Owen [00:03:05]:
Right. ICOP.

Lauri Wakefield [00:03:06]:
And that's actually listed on NASDAQ now.

Laura Owen [00:03:08]:
It was, yes. We actually, it went private. We sold it to a company in Houston. And so now it's still out there. I cop is still out there, but it's under another company now.

Lauri Wakefield [00:03:18]:
Okay. And then you want to talk about your other ventures.

Laura Owen [00:03:23]:
Something that I think people are always surprised to learn is that I spent about three years working in the Middle East. I went back and forth on airplanes to Saudi Arabia for three years. And not just in Saudi, but in countries in the region. And it was a fascinating time. I was a senior advisor to the Minister of Health in Saudi Arabia. And it was fascinating. I was always the only woman in the room and anyone, any men over the age of 40 hated me and let me know it. And all the young men under the age of 40 loved me and wanted me to come back. And I always spoke to women's groups there to encourage them and because I knew their time was coming. And it has come, it has changed very quickly. And I shared with you I love Israel. And my husband And I, just two years ago, right before the war, took 20 college kids to Israel. And that was an amazing experience. My husband baptized 10 kids in the Jordan River. That was very cool and living in that world for so long. And actually I worked in the Middle east even prior to that on various projects. But I opened my eyes to the reality that the stories in the Bible aren't just stories. These are historic accounts. In most cases that I got to go to the places that the Bible speaks about and see the places where Jesus walked, where Paul walked, all of that. And it was an amazing life changing experience. So that was that chapter of my life of working in the Middle east was really very formative and fascinating.

Lauri Wakefield [00:04:51]:
So that the work, when you went to the, to Arabia, Saudi Arabia, was that through the company that you founded, the Pont Salus Company?

Laura Owen [00:05:00]:
Yes. Good consulting company. Yeah. So my job, what I did was it was my job to understand what the minister wanted to achieve his vision with healthcare for Saudi Arabia. And then it was my job to identify partners in North America, US and Canada that we could accelerate his vision by partnering with these organizations. So it was a really interesting opportunity and one that I'm very grateful for. I had a chance to get to know a lot of wonderful people and work with people from all over the world on those projects. So it was really interesting and specific to our discussion today. Very interesting that GE Corporation was a big part of that. And GE recognized that in Saudi, this is just a handful of years ago, women did not do mammograms. And the reason for that was it was almost a humiliation thing. Right. But they're tired. Right. And so recognizing the danger of that, GE put together in working with the Minister of Health, these mobile clinics that traveled all over Saudi Arabia with a lot of public messaging to express how important this was. And you can imagine the number of positive cases that were identified because they had never done this before. But. And they learned also that in Saudi, they have a genetic predisposition to more aggressive cancers in young women.

Lauri Wakefield [00:06:22]:
Wow.

Laura Owen [00:06:23]:
And it has to do with their genetic makeup is a little different. So it was a very interesting time and grateful that a lot of women caught that breast cancer early and were treated and cured. But anyway, so that was a great. A very exciting chapter of my life.

Lauri Wakefield [00:06:39]:
So when you went there, did you have to dress in certain. Cover your face and not my face.

Laura Owen [00:06:45]:
I had to cover my hair. Today. That's not necessary. I had to wear an abaya wrap around my clothing. You can wear pajamas under your abaya. Nobody knows the difference. And. But yeah, it had to be covered today, as of just about a year ago. In Saudi, Western women do not have to cover. I think it's a respect thing. I think it's a good thing to do it, but it's no longer a requirement. And in Saudi, most women don't cover their faces.

Lauri Wakefield [00:07:10]:
Okay, so then you became an interim CEO and strategic advisor for Chek6 International. You want to talk about that for a minute?

Laura Owen [00:07:19]:
Yeah. So check. Six is a company that is headquartered in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and at the time, they also had a co headquarters in Houston, which is where I operated from. And I had been on the board of directors and saw the need for the company to diversify. So what they did, the company is made up of these brilliant retired fighter pilots and special forces guys all over the world. And they go into oil and gas companies, the biggest ones in the world, and they go on right out to the rigs, and they teach what's called performance excellence. And so it's all about. It's all about optimizing safety and improving performance because oil rigs, for example, are very high risk, very dangerous place. There's no margin for error. And so we diversified. The company is now working in manufacturing and in transportation as well. And that was an amazing opportunity. But I'll tell you what was going to be a three month seat turned into six and a half months. And I came home one weekend and long story, my husband had a major heart attack. And so that ended my time on in that seat and my husband ended up with a five way heart bypass and pacemaker. And it was a very big deal. So contributing to why I wrote this book, right, that was part of it, my own health journey as well. And so we all have our journey, right? We all have our journeys and we're all a little different on our health journey and what brings us to make changes. But for me, that experience with my husband having a major heart attack combined with my own experience of having two precancerous lumps removed and I lost my mother to breast cancer young. And then here I am in my 40s and I'm. And in my 50s of oh my gosh, what is this thing that's happening to my hormones? And who am I?

Lauri Wakefield [00:09:13]:
We didn't mention the book yet, so people may be a little bit confused about what we're talking about. There's a book that you've written and it's going to be released at the time of this podcast. It may not, it may not. It hasn't been released, but by the time people listen to it, it's obviously going to be available so we can talk about that. The name of the book is the reset code, 10 steps to unlock your best health and life. So it has to do with the title pretty much says what it's about, but it has to do with chronic inflammation, understanding that and its impact on your health. So that's the book that you're talking about. So let's, let's talk about that. It was after the health, the major health issue that your husband had and then yourself, how long after that did you decide to write the book?

Laura Owen [00:09:56]:
Well, I just actually just wrote the book recently.

Lauri Wakefield [00:10:00]:
Okay.

Laura Owen [00:10:00]:
And something that's been in my heart for some time. So I had my own personal health history that I shared with scares and went through the whole hormonal thing and recognizing I felt like I lost myself. My cats were grown, they went off to college and here I'm going through this hormonal roller coaster and all of those things. So I dealt with all of that and I've Always been a pretty healthy person, yet all of a sudden I was facing some pretty scary things and. Which by the way, have a direct correlation to chronic inflammation. We'll go there in a moment. And then my husband had this heart attack and that was very scary.

Lauri Wakefield [00:10:39]:
Probably. Yeah, probably out of the blue. There was, there weren't any warning signs or anything that would have indicated health or heart issues or.

Laura Owen [00:10:48]:
No, it was a very scary time.

Lauri Wakefield [00:10:50]:
Yeah.

Laura Owen [00:10:51]:
And we almost lost him. But then, and then here really was the catalyst I met Health Night. I'm always reading what's the latest and greatest in health. I love this topic. It's my passion. And I came across a Facebook page for people who had just been diagnosed with type 2 diabetes, which by the way, today in America, half of American adults are either diabetic or pre diabetic.

Lauri Wakefield [00:11:16]:
Wow.

Laura Owen [00:11:17]:
Today that's a very scary statistic. And of those who are pre diabetic, 90% of them do not know it. And so it's no small thing. Anyway, so I'm reading on this page these people who had just been diagnosed and how they were dealing with it. And I came across a post. A 30 year old woman had written that she was suicidal and she had just come from the doctor. She was diagnosed as type 2 diabetic and she had seen her mother go through losing limbs, losing her eyesight, and ultimately losing her life. She thought that that diagnosis for her meant she was going down that path. And the doctor, God bless these doctors she had, they have seven minutes on average with a patient today and they're trained to diagnose and prescribe and prescribe. So he didn't have time to talk to her about how could she reverse this, how could she better manage it or reverse it? And there's certainly no conversation about how we prevent this. It's all about chronic inflammation, folks. And I just was, I'm literally at my keyboard with tears coming down my face saying, no, and this is a wake up call. Maybe this diagnosis was your gift because maybe this is what's going to wake you up. Then it's time to make changes then.

Lauri Wakefield [00:12:29]:
To turn your health around.

Laura Owen [00:12:30]:
Exactly. So she was so surprised. She had no idea that there was hope in that diagnosis. So I shared some things with her.

Lauri Wakefield [00:12:40]:
Okay.

Laura Owen [00:12:41]:
And then I'm sad to say, I'm really sad to say it didn't occur to me how deeply moved her story would have on my life. And so I, I'm sorry I didn't keep her information and stay in touch with her to encourage her. It was just, again, I was just scrolling and reading posts and.

Lauri Wakefield [00:13:01]:
Right, and you responded to it.

Laura Owen [00:13:03]:
Yeah, I just wished that I could find out who she was today and see how she's doing and could encourage her. But so that those things are really the things that led to me writing this book. And I recognize because I've lived it. You and I have talked about that. We both lived that when, especially when women hit about the age of 40. Stuff starts changing, folks. Best of us, right? And it happens to all of us. And unfortunately for women, it's not just physical. So those physical changes happen. Our hormones are changing. Frankly, at that same time in our life. Our husbands are dealing with their own kind of menopause. Right. They're dealing with that. Our kids are growing up and not needing us the way that they once did. And we lose who we are. We lose a sense of, of who am I, Why am I here? What is the purpose of this whole thing? And then on top of -

Lauri Wakefield [00:13:54]:
Yeah, I was going to say, and where did I go? You know what I'm saying?

Laura Owen [00:13:57]:
Yeah, I evaporated and my hopes and my dreams are gone because I don't have confidence in who I am anymore. I'm willing to reach for that brass ring because I don't feel good about me. Why would anybody want to trust me or hear from me or believe that I'm going to lead something? All of those self doubts are usually buried and there's usually a facade of everything's fine, but in reality it's not fine.

Lauri Wakefield [00:14:23]:
And maybe, yeah, I was just gonna say, and I think too sometimes like you're feeling those different feelings but you haven't identified them, you know, you know what I'm saying? It's like you don't even realize that those are things that you're feeling. You're just feeling them and you're trying to feel okay and pretend you're okay until you actually sit down and do some self reflection. And sometimes you have to be beyond certain things to be able to look back and see. Sometimes it's when you're in the midst of it.

Laura Owen [00:14:50]:
Exactly right. Exactly right. And so the other thing that often happens is weight has crept up on us. And so by the time you hit menopause, then your metabolism starts to change and it's harder to take the weight off and easier to put the weight on and all these things start mounting and then you really don't feel good about yourself. And so this, all of these realities are the reason that I said, you know what? It's Time to write a book about how do we not only prevent all of this mess, how do we better manage it if we're already dealing with it? Or in many cases, how do we reverse it? Whether we're talking about obesity or being overweight or these chronic illnesses, and let's take a moment to talk about those. A lot of people don't realize that chronic illnesses, the big three that we talk a lot about are diabetes, which I told you, half of American adults are diabetic or pre diabetic. Heart disease, liver disease. Those are the trifecta. Once you have diabetes, then very soon after that, heart disease starts creeping in. And for women, the symptoms are often ignored and overlooked. Very often a little different from how men show up with heart disease. And so often when women have a heart attack, it's not just a little heart attack and then liver disease. Now you've got the trifecta, all three. And when you have all three, you're known for as having metabolic syndrome. You now have a difficult, a very difficult to reverse situation. It's normal and it's going to take real intentionality. As I shared with you just as we were starting the podcast before we started, all of these things take intention. So we have to want change in our lives to change them. Because change can be hard, right. If we're used to eating potato chips every day for lunch and ice cream every single night and whatever for breakfast, those things take time to change and we have to want that change. But our diet is the first. When you're looking at the 10 steps that the book outlines, diet is very critical because what we put in our mouths every day is either food and nourishment and nutrition or it's poison. It's either medicine or poison. And so being intentional about those things. But even before we even take on our food, what we're eating, we have to acknowledge there has to be a why.

Lauri Wakefield [00:17:14]:
Exactly. And. Yeah, and it has. Yeah, it has to be a why that's gonna. Gonna make us wanna change. Sometimes just not wanting to put on weight isn't enough. Or not. Sometimes that's not enough. It has to do with things that are deeper than that. Like the illnesses or diseases that can be caused from that weight gain.

Laura Owen [00:17:31]:
Yeah, exactly. Right. And so the very first step in the 10 steps is getting clear about your why. And your why would be very different from my why, this person's why or that person's why. And so getting really clear. And there's a whole series of exercises in the books to, in the book to be able to drill down into getting really clear about that why. And that becomes your driving force every day to help you take the rest of the nine steps forward so that you can make those changes that are sustainable. Unlike losing weight for a class reunion.

Lauri Wakefield [00:18:06]:
Right, right.

Laura Owen [00:18:07]:
That weight's gonna come right back on after if there wasn't a deeper why to it. So the why is very important.

Lauri Wakefield [00:18:14]:
I was. Yeah, I was gonna say too, your book, it's chronic inflammation is something that a lot of people write about. But your book is gonna be from your lens, it's going to be from your life and just it's going to be from your perspective. So it's going to be different than other books that are out there that covered chronic inflammation.

Laura Owen [00:18:33]:
And on a. More Again, the personal journey, I share that. So my faith started when I was 16 years old. Right. That was life changing for me. And that was just a few years ago. Right. And but then going to Israel and walking the places that Jesus walked, walking the place that Paul walked, that was a life changing wake up. Because then everything in that Bible that I studied was oh my goodness, this, this happened. This isn't just a story, this isn't just something to an analogy for me to understand these things actually happened to me.

Lauri Wakefield [00:19:09]:
This is where it happened. Right? Yes.

Laura Owen [00:19:12]:
And so for me, even though the book is written from a medical perspective and by the way, all the clinical references are in the back of the book, when I first read the book, it was too Clinical. And Dr. Thane Marsden, who wrote the forward of the book, he is a retired Mayos surgeon, he said on the initial copy, it's boring, nobody's gonna read it, it's too clinical. Yeah. Like it was. And so he said he rewrite it and make it much more understandable and put a little piece in the back. But. Oh yeah, that was a. I was.

Lauri Wakefield [00:19:45]:
Just gonna say you must have been like, oh my gosh, all the time I spent writing this and you think I should rewrite it?

Laura Owen [00:19:51]:
Rewrite everything. And all references are in the back of the book. So if someone wants to do a deep dive understanding some of the references, they can do that. But the book is written to be actionable. It's written to be understood and actionable. And I think there are some wonderful health books out right now, really great ones. The problem is I don't think people will do anything with them and actually changing their lives because they're too clinical and nobody wants to read that stuff. The book is meant to really bring hope. So like I said I think you can't change what you don't acknowledge. Right. If we aren't honest about hey, I need to take off some weight or hey, I haven't had a comprehensive health exam in a lot of years. I need to know where I am. How is my A1C.

Lauri Wakefield [00:20:34]:
That's right. You're.

Laura Owen [00:20:36]:
That's going to determine if you have diabetes or prediabetes. And my HSCRP, if I have a family history, if I'm pre. Predisposed to heart disease. Knowing what your arterial inflammation is. Right. An HSCRP test is critical and they don't do that often enough.

Lauri Wakefield [00:20:53]:
Yeah.

Laura Owen [00:20:54]:
So certain health tests done I think are really part of.

Lauri Wakefield [00:20:58]:
Yeah. I'm sorry, I don't mean to interrupt you. I start. I enrolled in a program. It's a membership for a company. The website is functionhealth.com very. So I, I do. I actually went for my first set this year last week and I. But anyway it's. You do two different, two different blood draws but they test for a hundred different biomarkers and they do it twice a year. They don't do a hundred the second time, but they do several of them. But yeah, I mean that, that information you're you. When you go to the doctor, they're there to see what you have. They're not there to look at what could be potentially a problem in the future. They're not there to look at compare values from this year and last year necessarily. They're there. Yeah. And it's. It's sad. It's sad. There are so many things that you can.

Laura Owen [00:21:45]:
Our medical system.

Lauri Wakefield [00:21:47]:
Yeah. It really is. It's. But anyway, that is something that's been extremely helpful to me and I think I like with this episode. I'm probably going to link to that as a resource. Can you think of any other resources that might be helpful?

Laura Owen [00:22:00]:
Gosh, there are several really good ones out there right now. I'm a big believer. There's a. There's a very important PhD at Harvard. His name is Dr. David Sinclair. F I N C L A I R I believe and he's considered the foremost expert on anti aging and he is studying our Fascinating. Right. And he talks about the fact that hey folks, stay healthy right now because right on the horizon just we're talking five to ten years things are going to be possible with changing your genes. So between believing 20 to 30% of our health is genetic, the rest of it's environmental. It's what we do to the.

Lauri Wakefield [00:22:42]:
Yeah. So you're talking about like when he said, when he says changes genes, you're talking about like maybe like where the.

Laura Owen [00:22:47]:
Genes have a predisposition to harp. Yeah.

Lauri Wakefield [00:22:50]:
So reversing that with that particular gene, you're not changing the genes in somebody's body, you're just changing.

Laura Owen [00:22:55]:
Changing. Yes. You are actually changing the DNA. So you are actually changing the DNA will be able to. It's not there quite yet. It's being studied and it's very near term. And doing things with stem cells are fascinating. What's on the horizon? So Dr. David Sinclair is someone that his it's dry read. It's because it's all clinical stuff. But this guy is on the cutting edge. He's fascinating.

Lauri Wakefield [00:23:19]:
Does he have a website or if someone just Googled him. He does. Do you know what the website is.

Laura Owen [00:23:23]:
If you google him? I don't know the website. Again, he's on staff at Harvard as a researcher, but I would definitely look into him. Also Dr. Mark Hyman. But the whole notion with Dr. Mark Hyman is that get tested because you can't change what you don't acknowledge. And if you know whether it's our weight, whether it's, for example, our doctors, again, God bless them, they're trained to do what they're doing. This is what medical schools have produced and that is they don't look at the root cause of a problem. They just diagnose and prescribe pills. Prescribe pills.

Lauri Wakefield [00:23:56]:
So sad. So you keep going to the doctor and then finally now you have this. And there was like no mention of, of how to prevent it or mention of recent patterns in your like blood work. Even though it's within normal range, it could be, it could still be something that could potentially be a problem in the future. I know for myself I have low ferritin, but it's within. I've had it. I don't know recently what it is. Just because it's within normal range doesn't mean that it doesn't need to be addressed.

Laura Owen [00:24:24]:
Yes. And it also means that a trained physician and in the case of what you're describing, a functional medicine doctor is someone who is an MD that's they've completed medical school, but they've gone on and gotten additional education. Because the additional education they have focuses on the root cause.

Lauri Wakefield [00:24:40]:
Exactly.

Laura Owen [00:24:41]:
More with prevention. So like, to your point, if you're on the low range with ferritin, it. It has implications to other things. A trained physician can look at that and other things in your blood work and say, okay, right. Now this is where she is and we're going to watch this to make sure this is okay or do these.

Lauri Wakefield [00:24:59]:
Things to help improve it, even though it's still within the normal range.

Laura Owen [00:25:04]:
So I love the fact that there is a wake up call happening in our country, a wake up call about let's get some of these chemicals out of our foods and the preservatives and in Europe, I'll take the American justice system and the American way of life anytime over any place in the world. However, our food supply has been so incredibly poisoned and the frankly and our pharmaceutical industry is so driven by greed.

Lauri Wakefield [00:25:32]:
Oh gosh. Yes, gosh.

Laura Owen [00:25:34]:
And right. And so don't be a victim of that. Don't be a victim of that. Start taking personal responsibility for your health. Become the best body you can have. And we talked about before we started today that we're more than just a body and a mind. We're body, mind and spirit. And if we ignore any one of those, everything gets messed up. Address all of it. And if I might just mention very briefly something that is really the driving passion of what I'm doing with the reset code is yes, I've written this book, but I've also created a 10 week program for women based on the book to help women optimize their health, whether it's preventive, better managing or reversing many chronic illnesses. Right. With these 10 steps. That's what the 10 weeks are. And we're doing that in partnership with churches. So the program invites women from outside of the church. It's an outreach program to come into the church for the program. And so they have community right with women in the church. And if we aren't helping women with their health. So it's focused on women because I personally know if I attend a program like this, I'm going to be talking about hot flashes in front of a bunch of guys. It's for women and women only and women of all ages. I don't care if it's a 14 year old girl who's starting to deal with female issues or if it's a 94 year old woman who's been there and can maybe help with, bring some of that wisdom to the rest of it, but is looking to take care of her health. So it's a 10 week program and it's all about encouraging, providing that hope, addressing the mind, body and the spirit with a lot of science. Right. There is a lot of medical breakthroughs, a lot of medical breakthroughs that are happening that are talked about in the book, but it's also again about addressing the body, the mind and the spirit. And if someone wants to know more about that. Yeah, I'd be happy to share information. Theresetcode.net, it's not.com, it's.net, they can go there and learn more about the program if they're interested. Message me and we'll.

Lauri Wakefield [00:27:39]:
I'll link to that. Yeah, I was gonna, at the close, I was gonna mention that. So I'll mention that again. I was gonna. Gonna say too. Just going back to the functional medicine, like integrative doctors are good, really good too, because they did. They do well, their MDs too. But they're. Yes, they incorporate the. They combine the conventional and the functional.

Laura Owen [00:27:58]:
Exactly. And a lot of people say, oh gosh, it's expensive because my health insurance won't cover it.

Lauri Wakefield [00:28:03]:
Which is sad too.

Laura Owen [00:28:04]:
It is very unfortunate. I really think that's going to change because I know the current administration is looking into that because if we're not preventive in our health focus, then we're really not providing health care. We're providing sick care.

Lauri Wakefield [00:28:19]:
Exactly.

Laura Owen [00:28:20]:
We have to make this available to people. And it is expensive, unfortunately, but. Because if insurance doesn't cover it, it's out of pocket. But these tests that you're talking about, for example, one example I'll give that I mentioned in the book is conventional docs today you go for your annual health examination and they'll do a lipid panel. So that cholesterol test in your pregnancy. The problem is that really doesn't give you very meaningful information about person's cholesterol.

Lauri Wakefield [00:28:48]:
It doesn't. It doesn't because you've. There are other. Yeah. So you've got the lp. Yeah. The lpa, the particle size and.

Laura Owen [00:28:55]:
Yeah, yeah, yeah. So you can even go to your regular doctor and insurance will pay for it if the doctor orders it.

Lauri Wakefield [00:29:02]:
Okay.

Laura Owen [00:29:03]:
Get an LP test. It's much more informative than just the standard lipid panel. Get the lipid panel, but then get the L. Yeah. The LP test.

Lauri Wakefield [00:29:13]:
So another thing that I do, I. In between the function health and my doctor, there's a. And there are. There's more than one, one company that does it, but it's called Walk in Lab W A L K I N lab. You can order your own. And I do that, if not frequently, but if I feel a need to check something again or see where something's at, I'll do it again. And they work with Quest and LabCorp and yeah.

Laura Owen [00:29:36]:
Yeah. And you can do those from home.

Lauri Wakefield [00:29:37]:
Yeah, some. Yeah, some of it's from home. But you go to the actual like Quest or LabCorp and some of them.

Laura Owen [00:29:43]:
You do have to go and have the blood drawn. And Phlebotomist, there are also many companies now that you can order a blood test or a urine test online. It comes to do the specimen at home. Yeah, you do that at home and you mail it in, you get your test result.

Lauri Wakefield [00:30:00]:
It's fascinating. And I know when I went to. I don't mean to keep interrupting, but when I went to my doctor last year for my physical and I, I brought up some things about. They don't want to hear it. They don't like these other tests that you had done. They don't care. It's like they, they think you're like maybe trying to, I don't know, I don't really know how to describe it, but it's almost like.

Laura Owen [00:30:18]:
Right from the front.

Lauri Wakefield [00:30:19]:
Yeah, that's what I was going to say. Something up front. Yeah. Like or you're not trusting them. But how can you when they're not.

Laura Owen [00:30:28]:
20 years ago, 30 years. Right. And so much has changed and many of them don't keep up.

Lauri Wakefield [00:30:33]:
You're right.

Laura Owen [00:30:34]:
Insurance pays for and. Yeah.

Lauri Wakefield [00:30:36]:
Or what they're told they can't. Yeah.

Laura Owen [00:30:38]:
The status quo is what we get. And, and as a result, America is so over prescribed when you look at how many prescription meds people take every single day. So my, my for profit business is healthy id and we help employers save money on prescription meds. That's a whole nother story. But let me tell you, it's astounding how much these prescription meds cost. So you've seen, at night, you've probably seen ads on television for a drug called Stelara, another called Skyrezzi. Each of Those drugs are $25,000 a month.

Lauri Wakefield [00:31:13]:
Oh my gosh, why.

Laura Owen [00:31:15]:
And look at. They're on TV every night.

Lauri Wakefield [00:31:17]:
That's the thing. Yeah. I was just gonna say like advertisements. I hate those advertisements. I don't want to hear about something. If I need to know about something, it's got to be something I might need. Why would I want to know about all these different drugs?

Laura Owen [00:31:30]:
It's because the illnesses that are out there right now, those ads on TV are there because those illnesses are that prevalent.

Lauri Wakefield [00:31:37]:
They also probably make the prescription cost even more because they're spending money advertising.

Laura Owen [00:31:43]:
Oh, huge money on ads and lobbying, by the way.

Lauri Wakefield [00:31:46]:
Yeah.

Laura Owen [00:31:47]:
The largest contributor to congressional campaigns is pharmaceutical companies. There's a problem with that. That shouldn't be happening. That should be illegal, because that creates a massive bias on the part of members of Congress. And how the FDA is allowed to operate is criminal. And a lot of that is coming out now. A lot of that is being addressed. And I'm grateful for that. That has to change. But, yeah, we have a very corrupt food supply system. We have a very corrupt pharmaceutical system. It is not serving us. So that's why we need to take ownership of our own health. And that means getting read up on this stuff. Pick up my book, please, and apply it. Give it a chance and see how you feel. See your energy level, see what happens with weight, see what happens with chronic illnesses. If you're getting tested, please get tested. In the book, I talk about some of the tests that doctors don't always routinely do. Like we talked about the LPN and get tested. And many of those tests, if you ask your doctor, and yes, very often, they'll be offended because they weren't trained to routinely those tests.

Lauri Wakefield [00:32:56]:
How do you know all this stuff when I'm the doctor?

Laura Owen [00:32:59]:
Get the test. Just get the test. Get the information. Because we can't change what we don't acknowledge and then start taking control of your health. And I want to say to your audience that even though a lot of this stuff is scary and it is right, if we've been diagnosed with cancer, if we've been diagnosed with heart disease, if we've been diagnosed with diabetes, I want to say there is hope. And that's really the message of the book is, guess what? It's not. The answer is not always in a pill. There's a time and a place for prescriptions. There is a place for them, but we certainly shouldn't want them to be part of our lives forever, and we certainly should not want a handful of those every day.

Lauri Wakefield [00:33:40]:
Exactly. Let's go back to the program. So that. When is that going to be? So the book will be released soon. As of the time of this recording, it hasn't been. But it's going to be soon.

Laura Owen [00:33:51]:
Yeah. It's actually supposed to be released by tomorrow on Amazon, so by the time the podcast hears, it will be on Amazon.

Lauri Wakefield [00:33:58]:
Okay.

Laura Owen [00:34:00]:
And. And it's available in an ebook or a paperback.

Lauri Wakefield [00:34:03]:
Okay.

Laura Owen [00:34:04]:
I really would love for your listeners to pick that up and again, recognize that it's about hope.

Lauri Wakefield [00:34:10]:
So the program, when is that set to.

Laura Owen [00:34:13]:
It's ready now.

Lauri Wakefield [00:34:14]:
Oh, it is? Okay. So are they actually. Are some churches actually offering it?

Laura Owen [00:34:18]:
Yes.

Lauri Wakefield [00:34:19]:
Okay.

Laura Owen [00:34:19]:
Wow. Yeah. So if Someone wants to offer it in their church, let me know. And you don't have to be a pastor to lead this. In fact, you may be the person in the group that benefits most from the program because if you lead this, you tend to. The teacher tends to learn more than the students. Right. In anything. Right. So if you take on being a leader, invite your community to join with your church and getting the message out to your local community and offer it, I want to emphasize it is a Christ centered program. So I want to share the importance of spirit. We're not just a mind and a body that is in my heart the most important part of the program, but the health part of it. Weekly program. What we're talking about is health, women's health. And it is, I should underscore, just for women, not the book. The book is for men and women, but the program itself is just for women.

Lauri Wakefield [00:35:08]:
So how's it structured then the this for 10 weeks.

Laura Owen [00:35:11]:
And so each week is one of the 10 steps.

Lauri Wakefield [00:35:14]:
Okay, so there's a video.

Laura Owen [00:35:16]:
So I recorded interviews with 10 subject matter experts on each of the 10 topics of the book. And it's every week we cover one of those. And so there's a reading assignment each week from the book. And then during the, the weekly session, it's an hour long program. And the video, they show the video, if they have the ability to show the video, which is. The videos are interesting, right? Because each of these are some of the foremost leaders in each of their domains. And then there's a group discussion and that's where they get into small groups and they talk about how they're going to apply it. And that's where it really gets real because women are going to realize I'm not the only one who's been feeling crappy. I'm not the only one who is low energy. I'm not the only one who doesn't feel good about myself. And. And to discover that they are part of a sisterhood that wants to support them.

Lauri Wakefield [00:36:07]:
Is there a limit to the class size or the group size?

Laura Owen [00:36:10]:
Okay, not at all. It's in, in some groups it's going to be very small and others it's going to be very large. Doesn't matter. The point is just do it. And it's a, it's a life changing. It's a life changing transformation is what I like to call it. It's mind, body and spirit. It's all.

Lauri Wakefield [00:36:27]:
So do they get a copy of the book done with the program or do they get a workbook or both.

Laura Owen [00:36:32]:
Yeah. So we are actually waiving all fees. Most programs that go through churches, there's fees that are charged to the church, and then the participants buy the book. So in our case, we're waiving all of the fees through October for the churches and the women who participate, they buy a book and a workbook. The work is what they use in class every week. The book is the core information that they read from as their homework assignment that they come back. Like, they'll read, for example, chapter one, what is your why? And they'll read that before they come to class. And then when they come to class, they'll watch the video about what is the why? Which is a fascinating video. And then they'll do the group exercises. And so what we recommend is that the total class time every week be 60 minutes. And then if they want to stay and socialize after, that's great. But I always like to encourage them to start on time and end on time. Women respect everyone's time in that. And then if they want to stay in social lives, that's great.

Lauri Wakefield [00:37:32]:
So will that information be available then on your. The reset code.net? it's the. It's not just like the. And then reset code net. It's the resetcode.net.

Laura Owen [00:37:43]:
Thank you for clarifying that.

Lauri Wakefield [00:37:44]:
Yeah. Which I said I'll link to. So do you know at this point how many states it's branched out into? Is it.

Laura Owen [00:37:50]:
No, we're really just in the earliest stages. I'm really excited about the reception that it has in churches. There are really not a lot of women's programs about health in churches. Right. And yet it's something we all live with every single day. And it's not just women in the community that are facing chronic illnesses and over obesity. It's also in our churches. It's both. Right. Because we're all women. Right. Journey. So let's do this together. Let's bolster each other up. Let's encourage one another and get through these 10 steps to figure out. And it's very practical. I want to emphasize that the program is extremely practical. It's not just, okay, now you need to start eating kale. I don't like kale. I don't even eat it. I eat a very healthy diet, but I can tell you kale is not part of it. Yeah.

Lauri Wakefield [00:38:40]:
I was going to say I started using kale in my protein shakes every day, and then I found out that they're high in oxalates, which I didn't know I was like, ooh, yeah, not every day.

Laura Owen [00:38:53]:
Yeah, not every day. So it's. It's individual. So we all have our routines. I like, personally to keep it simple. I don't like to eat out at restaurants all the time because the crap that's in that food, you don't even know. You don't even know.

Lauri Wakefield [00:39:05]:
Exactly.

Laura Owen [00:39:05]:
But on the other hand, I don't have time to spend three hours preparing dinner every night. That's just not gonna happen. So I believe in keeping it simple and being able to put healthy food on the table. And by the way, we as women, even though things have begun changing, we are still the ones that are buying the groceries and making the meals and putting the food on the table. And when we see our families and we see the health of our families, that's a big accountability thing. Right. We're in a big way responsible for a lot of that. Right. So the stuff we have in the cabinet, the pantry, maybe we need to make some changes there to help our families. And so it's not just about what's happening to our vessels, it's also our loved ones.

Lauri Wakefield [00:39:49]:
Exactly. Yeah. I actually like that role. I like cooking and picking out food and stuff like that. But.

Laura Owen [00:39:56]:
But don't you find it was a process? Right. So when you go from the American diet, which is known as the SAD diet, the standard American diet, sad, to a healthier way of eating, it's a process. You don't just.

Lauri Wakefield [00:40:10]:
Oh, it definitely is. I remember. What was it, maybe six or seven years ago. I don't know how long ago it was, but it was. It was something I saw. I think it was a podcast interview. I heard about. I heard about the book. It was the whole 360 or something like that. And it was talking about. And that was where the seed was planted for me. But, yeah, it took a while to really. And I can't say I don't ever eat processed foods, but for the most part, I try to stay away from them. I do. And I don't buy, like, frozen dinners. I don't buy box foods other than like maybe rice or things like that, but not prepared rarely by stuff like that. Yeah.

Laura Owen [00:40:46]:
And see, that process is what we hope to awaken in people, because the vast majority of the American diet is fast food and processed, ultra processed foods. So if we can get people to just start gradually making those changes. I believe in the 80, 20 rule, if 80% of what you consume is healthy, then 20% can be birthday cake and like that. Just be honest with yourself about what the 80, 80, 20, actually. And so that's the goal is let's just wake people up to the truth, their truth and the journey that they're on and help them really optimize. And it happens over time. Give yourself some grace.

Lauri Wakefield [00:41:22]:
Exactly. So that's going to wrap things up for this episode. Thanks so much for joining us today. If you'd like more information about this, the reset code with the. You can visit the resetcode.net and the website is currently in the process of being developed. But if you visited at this time or whenever you visited, if it hasn't been there, there's a contact page on there where you can reach out to Laura if you have any questions or you just want to connect with her. I'll also include the link to your book. I don't know if it hit because at the time of this podcast it's not out. But it might be by then. So I'll look forward.

Laura Owen [00:41:54]:
It definitely will be by then.

Lauri Wakefield [00:41:56]:
Yeah.

Laura Owen [00:41:56]:
And I'll send you that link, Lori, so you can add that for your listeners. But it will, the book will be out tomorrow, so by the time this airs, it will be out.

Lauri Wakefield [00:42:04]:
Yeah. Okay. So I'll also link to your LinkedIn profile, if that's okay, in the show notes. And if you. Yeah. If you'd like to see the show notes for today's podcast, you can find them on my website at Inspired living for women.com the show notes will be listed under Podcast Show Notes Episode 27. If you'd like to join me as I continue my conversations with other guests exploring topics with women over 40, please be sure to subscribe to the Inspired Living for Women podcast. Thanks again and have a great day.

Laura Owen [00:42:30]:
Thank you.

Lauri Wakefield [00:42:31]:
You're welcome.