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Episode 32 - The number 40. Listen in on a chat about all the changes around this number. Amy & Rachael also discuss current events, AI predictions, and much more...
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The number forty. Yeah. What about it? What do you mean? Like an age or just the number? Like an age. Like you hit forty and like your hormones and oh yeah. Everything just die or change? Die, yeah, pretty much.
SPEAKER_02Collagen dies, like lack of actually I have been hearing that also this week.
SPEAKER_04Like I my skin. I have two other people that are clients that they recently hit that dreaded number. Uh-huh. Um, and only dreaded because it's because of how things change. Not that like, oh my gosh, like it's the end of your li. Like, nothing like that. It's more how things change in your body when you hit certain numbers. Um and the whole adult acne thing really hits right at that age because of hormonal changes. And so that was the one thing I was like, hmm.
SPEAKER_02Well, let me tell you what, at 40, you have the nicest toes I've ever seen. Like, I actually can't believe not not just your your your toes, like your whole foot, but even your toe nails are like and when did you get a pedicure last?
SPEAKER_04Um seven weeks. That's ridiculous. This is seven weeks. What? Yeah.
SPEAKER_02I think you might have to start an OnlyFans for your feet.
SPEAKER_04I was told that before.
SPEAKER_02You have really nice. I'm not even like a foot or a toe person at all, actually. I might change my mind on your toes.
SPEAKER_04I have I have actually been told that I have really, really, really cute feet. You do somebody told me when I was younger that I should be a foot model, and I was like, yeah, but I have ankles and my I have cankles, sorry.
SPEAKER_02Okay, that is totally made up in your head. But your toes are very nice. Wow. I don't think we can post your toes because I think that might turn into a different channel. A different show. But I'm just I happen to we were we were talking about things we definitely can't talk about on this podcast because we have family that listens. We were talking about um after hours events, and my mother and my mother-in-law listen, and um yeah, I'm just not we just she yeah, we we just can't go there, yeah. However, 40 we'll go back to 40 times, but yeah, I've been hearing um even my other podcasts I've listened to, my um algorithm in general, and I'm not even 40 yet, but it's still here. I mean, I'm you can round up at this point. I did a uh reel earlier this week about how I'm looking for the wide toe box shoes and how it was like a whole thing because I'm like, oh, this is the end, it's come to this, and they're just just hideous. I did get a couple, um, actually several people gave me brands to look at. Good. But I'm always like, oh, thank God. But I wasn't um somebody didn't understand like why I'm looking for a wide toe box. Like, what does that mean? Do you have fat feet? And I'm like, no. She doesn't. No, don't she doesn't have to be like I don't have your feet, but I did um I used to have we talked about this one I don't even know. The last one and the one before about my I had ingrown toenails, I had that just I guess it's not even a surgery, it's just a procedure.
SPEAKER_04Yeah.
SPEAKER_02That was wild. Have you ever seen or do you know what they do for that?
SPEAKER_04Oh yeah, I do. I do. I've also and it's funny that you said that about you know, you're talking about toes, and I have lost my big toenails on each toe.
SPEAKER_02Okay.
SPEAKER_04Several well, twice on once and one on the other, and they still seem to to come back.
SPEAKER_01They look great. But it's uh welcome to the beauty files. This is the toes segment. Continue, Rachel.
SPEAKER_04But yeah, when they do ingrowns, oh, it can be gnarly looking.
SPEAKER_02Um well, first of all, I didn't know that there was even help for me. I would do surgery on my toes. I would take tweezers and just go to town, and then they get infected, and then I would just repeat the cycle over and over. And then it became more of like an OCD tendency of like, oh, I haven't picked my toes in a while. Let me stir up some shit and see what I can get into.
SPEAKER_04But do you know how that starts? The Inger and Starts, did they tell you?
SPEAKER_02No.
SPEAKER_04So as a child, did you have them? Um was it something that happened as you got older?
SPEAKER_02It was something as I got older, I will never forget. I went on a long weekend with a with a friend, just went with her family to some place, whatever, and we got pedicures, and we're getting it was a chocolate pedicure. I was like 15, it was amazing. And the tech was like, uh oh. I was like, uh-oh, what? And she's like, You're gonna have issues. See this? And she's showing me like how the toe's growing, and she's like, Yep, that's gonna be an issue. And almost like to the day, like the moment she said that, it just it was an issue. So that makes me wonder, was it an issue? She cursed me.
SPEAKER_04So a lot of it also has to do with first of all, shoes that you wear. But second of all, how you actually cut your toenails.
SPEAKER_02Uh yeah, that makes sense.
SPEAKER_04So cutting them, like you really should only ever cut them straight across. Right? If you start oh yeah, there's I would I would if you start digging into them, cutting the sides of them, trying to change them. Yeah, as they grow back in, it starts to become a problem. And that in li it entails when you start to deal with the ingrowns and the discomfort, and women that wear a lot of high heels, um, besides the bunyons, will deal with a lot of ingrowns, especially their large toes. So you do have to be very careful about who you go to when you're getting a pedicure, making sure that they're cutting your toenails appropriately, always, because if they're doing too much, it's going to be a problem eventually. That's uh all true. All true. And if you're at home picking at them yourselves, yeah.
SPEAKER_02You just and you know I was dan Well, once I got started, it was like a it was like something took over and I could not stop. Yeah. And then it I dream, like I'd have dreams that my toes are throbbing, and that's because they were. So I had the procedure done like two almost, gosh, almost three years ago now. Life has changed. I'm like so happy. It's wonderful. Good. But having it done was unbelievable. Unbelievable stitches? No. At all. No. Um, if you're not familiar, they take they take they spray the the crap out of your toe with what? I don't even know. Lidochine. The numbing or whatever.
SPEAKER_04The topical lidocaine.
SPEAKER_02Yes. And then here comes this big ass needle, and it's not this is what it what stopped me from going. Like when it once I heard there was a procedure, I halted because I thought the needle was going like right in that spot. It doesn't. It's just the sides of your toe, which is still gnarly. And then your toe feels like it's the size of like your face. It just feels enormous. And then they I'll be honest, I don't even know what he did. He he normally I'm the type of person that needs to watch. I opted out. Yeah. I don't think I I didn't have it in me to watch that time. But it was almost like uh he like burned it. Yeah, that was that was wild. How's it been since? Great. There was a little bit of a a moment where it wasn't. Like I was like, ooh, because he even said he's like, it might come back and we might have to do it again. And I'm like, well, of course it will, because you you said that. Um we remember my double epidural story. Yeah. Um, but and there was a time where I thought, uh-oh. And then it went away. And part of it is because I got the wide toe ball shoes.
SPEAKER_04Y'all. If you got ingrowns, get the appropriate shoes.
SPEAKER_02I know. Well, I'm pleased that they are making cute ones. I don't I'm wearing them now, but I don't have cute ones. They're they're pretty ugly. They're okay. They're not horrible. They're okay. Well, I'll get to what I thought we would talk about today. But I just wanted to like do a first, like a well, I guess we are doing a catch-up, but um I at your event, I had a woman next to me in the tent, and she's um a personal trainer. Mm-hmm. And she comes to your house if you have all the equipment. So I had to like do some convincing because she didn't believe me at first. And I showed her like the gym that we have, because I, you know, take videos and whatever, and she agreed to like So did you start? Monday. Start Monday. Well, I haven't started okay, not past Monday, this coming Monday. But I'm really excited, and I need to get back to it, and I realize that I just need accountability. Yes. So that's how I am. Yes. So I'm very excited, so I'll I'll follow up on that. But I feel like like motivated, like I'm ready. You're ready to get out there. I'm ready. I did just have it recently sprayed for spiders. Um so I feel a lot better about starting.
SPEAKER_04Because let me tell you guys, if there is a spider, this girl ain't going nowhere. And I mean nowhere near it. And she's gonna look at you and she's gonna scream like a little girl. It's true. And she's gonna be like, go get it. I can't go in there.
SPEAKER_01At one of your um events when I was inside, I went to plug something in and there was a spider, and I she was calm-ish.
SPEAKER_02I was like, Rachel, you gotta go get that.
SPEAKER_01I need assistance, and I have to leave the room.
SPEAKER_04It's like there was a grasshopper that got in. Oh, okay. See, that doesn't bother me. And Tessa's like, you you gotta get that. And I'm like, what? Like, guys, I know we're girls, but seriously.
SPEAKER_02I okay, here okay, okay, okay. Let's do it. Let's do a girl.
SPEAKER_01Let's do a this or that, okay? All right. Okay.
SPEAKER_02I gotta think about spiders or stink bugs? Spiders. Okay, well, I should probably preface what? What does that mean? Like what would you rather? Is that a better this or that? What would you rather? So would you rather have a spider or a stink bug? Spiders don't stink and I can just squish them.
SPEAKER_04Okay, so spider. Okay. Uh grasshopper or cricket? They're like the same to me. No, they're not.
SPEAKER_02Grasshoppers are bigger, so they're harder to catch. So a cricket. Oh wow, that's so funny. We are very opposite on that. I crickets are absolutely disgusting. They're like shiny and brown and green.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, and grasshoppers are green. Yeah, but they're like green and they're happy and they're bigger. Yeah, but they're they're not as they're louder.
SPEAKER_02I guess they are. Are they loud? Sometimes they can be. We need to do like a side-by-side on a way the sounds. Okay. I'm thinking what other creatures I don't like. Uh bees. Or ants.
SPEAKER_04I'm gonna go with see, that's really hard. My son has bee allergy, so I'm probably gonna have to go with ants, but I feel like bees are easier. We'll go with that. Yeah. I mean, uh ants, I don't know. I mean, they're all a pain in the ass. They really are. I don't like this segment anymore. Let's just move on.
SPEAKER_01I was talking.
SPEAKER_02It is funny though, the bug guy came out yesterday. Um, I really, I really like them. Just whatever they use just really takes them out. But I said, Oh man, I hope it's a cold winter, like, you know, implying that all the bugs die and never come back.
SPEAKER_01And you know, come in your house more if it's a cold winter like that. Well, yeah, but I just think that they all die. But he it was just funny because he said, Oh, don't say that.
SPEAKER_02And I was like, Oh, right, you need the bugs to stay in business. Like, isn't that a weird thing? Like, he's hoping that we have like an outbreak of something of just a bug, whatever, like lots of them, so that he has work. Right. Well, I don't want that.
unknownNo.
SPEAKER_02But I also don't want his business to fail. It's a very weird I mean, that's any business. I know, but nobody wants bugs.
SPEAKER_04No, nobody wants bugs, nobody wants clogged toilets, nobody wants a septic to go up, nobody wants their water to stop, nobody wants their AC to stop, no one wants their heat to stop, no one wants their face to look like they're 80. Um people don't want their bodies to blow up, people want to eat really yummy food, but they don't want to pay for it. I mean, like, we could go so many. Like people want cute clothes, but they you know.
SPEAKER_01Okay. Well, maybe that's just yeah, that's a good point. It's just business.
SPEAKER_04It's just business. Yeah.
SPEAKER_02I mean Well, then I still stand by. I don't want bugs and I want it to be a really cold winter. But see, I want it to be.
SPEAKER_04But you're still gonna have him come back and spray. So regardless, he's still gonna have a job. That's true. So Alright, well we've settled that. Yeah. Okay. How was your week? Um, it's a good week. I've had a week of I don't know why, I've had just really high anxiety. Me too. Really high anxiety this week that I just can't seem to get rid of and haven't slept. Well, you don't sleep anyway. I don't, but it's been like even worse. Have you been able to pinpoint what it is? No. I I just think that it's I'm telling you, it's 40. We're just gonna go with that number right now.
SPEAKER_02Well, I'm clearly well underway. Because um, I think mine was I we're in a season of delicious coffees, and just anytime it's this time of year, I just I just want it. So my caffeine um intake has increased. And I think it causes your oh, like without a doubt.
SPEAKER_04I yeah, I wish I could pinpoint. I've had a couple other people that have said that, and I don't know if like, you know, the whole mercury, like how the Oh yeah, how low would you want to get? I mean I mean who knows? It could be linked. I don't know. You would think that, you know, coming off the event and everything, oh, it'd just be like I was doing okay before then, and now all of a sudden it's just bad.
SPEAKER_02I was gonna say you're um a common uh anxiety driver. I don't think this applies to you, but we would be increased screen time.
unknownYeah.
SPEAKER_02But that's not your switch either.
SPEAKER_04No, because I really have like I said, I haven't really been paying attention to the news or anything like that, which I think is a good thing. Um there's been a lot of information. Um I have clients come in because they know that I'm like anything um like law. So they come in and they tell me the most interesting thing. I don't know if she saw it on Instagram or if it was on the news. This Philadelphia case, did you hear about that? So she was talking about that, and I was like, huh. So I'm waiting for her. I don't know, she said that she was gonna possibly send me um something about it, and then she told me to look it up. So what did you hear about this?
SPEAKER_02So trigger warning, sorry, it's just an awful story. It's an awful story, but it's just like it is an awful it's a well, it's a very unique story.
SPEAKER_04It is that's what I mean.
SPEAKER_02It's like so what I've heard is that it's a guy, and he was an author, and he was writing really uh dark, sexual, just weird murder stories and like He was doing artwork and stuff about it. Oh, yeah. And he it was just his outlet, right? It was his genre, that's what he was doing. Um turns out that well, he died. Right. He died. So he had a son, he had a son, and his son kind of uh also was into that kind of art, if you will, self-expression, what happened. They lived together, and they lived together in Philadelphia. Um cutting to the chase, basically uh a lot of women have gone missing. Um there uh like let's put it uh God, I don't want to go down this path, but the term snuff film is is kind of like the uh the style that he was into, which is truly like killing people uh and videoing it and all the things. So he would write about that, but it turns out he was actually doing that, and a lot of women have been seen on some of the videos, but there's no trace of them. Yeah.
SPEAKER_04Except for driver's license?
SPEAKER_02Yes, they found driver's license, I think of one or two of the victims, and just people who have who have been missing for like a while.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, she told me there was a woman that showed up there and was like yelling at him, and there was a driver's license. It was somebody that had been missing for seven years. A woman seven years.
SPEAKER_02So there's footage allegedly, everything here is alleged, um, of certain people that have gone missing. Now they're still alive in these photos or videos, I think. I I could be wrong, but the the really disgusting, I mean it's all bad, but they think that they're like dis dissolving. I don't even know what the term is. They're literally getting rid of the bodies, it's like Dexter level.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, there's that solution that you can put people into. Yes.
SPEAKER_02So Dexter season five, uh, with if you guys are Dexter fans, it was along with Jordan Chase, who's like a motivational speaker, and um what's her face? Uh Lumen. Um, played by what's her name? People are screaming it right now. She was in like um, so you Do you think you can dance or whatever that? What's that girl? It's got a really round face. Oh my god. It doesn't matter. Anyway, uh, I'll think about it in a minute. Um, anyway, same concept. They're putting women in these giant barrels, and then the solution, and then that would like delete their bodies, basically. So that's kind of real life now um going on in Philadelphia. So no one can really pinpoint the murders because there's no evidence that they were there, that they like other than the driver's license and then some footage of on the dark web of what they were creating.
SPEAKER_04So it really is horrendous and just I can't I come back to the fact that why are all these people in Pennsylvania?
SPEAKER_02Well, who else is in Pennsylvania?
SPEAKER_04Well, you think about the college murderer. Oh yeah, oh yeah, he lived in Pennsylvania, you're right. Um he's in the Poconos. Um you think about they just call it Luigi, but Luigi was in Pennsylvania when they caught him. That's true. Practically in Pennsylvania. He lives in Maryland, but it's like literally super close. Yes. There's someone else recently from Pennsylvania as well, and I was like, really? Yeah, what's that about?
SPEAKER_02Now, do you wonder if and now here's a good question. I don't know if these stories, I assume they're national news, right? But are they is someone in Iowa getting terrible Iowa news and it's like everything's uh out there, or is it truly like just Pennsylvania is like the devil state? I don't know.
SPEAKER_04I don't know, but I mean we make national news quite a bit from people that have done horrible things. It's so upsetting. So it is just a little eerie, um, but it's uh I I there's not that much you can do.
SPEAKER_02So just you know, use Street Smarts, don't share stuff like I don't know. I I don't know. And then oh well this isn't related to Pennsylvania, but it's been for whatever reason it's been it's finally Gotten some traction. Guy from OpenAI, I think. His name's Josh. Josh something. Uh, he was he announced that AI could potentially kill us within this in this decade. A bunch of people say that. Well, here's what's weird. Someone else said it like in 2023, and then someone else said it uh back in February, but now that it was said again, now it's like everywhere. Didn't he leave like wherever he was and he was like now? I have to get out of here. He wasn't an open AI, he was an anthropic. He is part of anthropic, I think. Um I don't know. You know, it it more so I find it interesting because the and don't quote me on this, but I I do know that whoever was retweeting his because apparently this guy, his name's Josh, Josh Chrome something, he never had a in a social media, never did anything online, and then all of a sudden he created one, made that post, and then it just went viral. So how is it that someone who just made something made a statement and it goes viral? Well, some of the people in the early retweets are they invested in AI. Like they're part of the the big And what did they say? This is this is true that they're pushing that narrative. So if you are an investor and you want AI to do well, why would you endorse and promote and let it catch on like wildfire that AI is gonna kill us in in this decade? Yeah. Like that seems really sus to me. Um so and then again, why now? If it was already said several times, like I feel like there's something a little conspiratorial here. Like I wasn't on The Simpsons? I mean, everything is on The Simpsons, so that doesn't surprise me. Um I don't know. I don't watch The Simpsons either.
SPEAKER_04I don't watch The Simpsons either. I've never liked it even as a child. It like I just thought it was annoying and what's his face's I can't even think of his name. The kid now is Simpson? I mean it's a terrible name. It's such a terrible name. Him and his spiky weird hair that I just can't. Homer with his round oval. It's these this the American family. Yeah.
SPEAKER_02It's you know the blue haired, and you got Maggie, Marge Marge. It's Marge, Lisa, Maggie, Bart, and Homer. I know. Yeah. That's our American icon right there. I don't know.
SPEAKER_04I mean, we're turning into the Jetsons. We've said that so.
SPEAKER_02Oh, we have, we have said that. Um Do you think now? Of course, the question is like, well, how? How can AI potentially take us out? Well, guys, it's a little scary.
SPEAKER_04I mean, so you hear about and you have heard about teens that get on let's chat GBT and it convinced them in one way, shape, or form to commit suicide. Yeah, that's true. Um, and they have found that that was accurate, that it did kind of tell them how to do it and when to do it. And I think that if someone wanted to write the language for AI to be able to manipulate people in whatever way it needed to, um, we have a society of people that would fall for it. And that seems to be I think why maybe some of that is being put out there. I do think that if we're allowing AI to drive our cars and run our households and deliver packages and whatever else, could that be a downfall of society? Yeah. If they turn AI off, if they stop electricity and you're in a car, if they do so those are all very like first person.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, I I agree. So that's one way. Correct. Then you have um more behind the scenes, you have like AI can turn off our grid, money, yeah, grid, everything. So people would kind of naturally turn on themselves. Um, they can create in the lab, you can create viruses, and then there's an outbreak there. Like I I'm more I'm more so interested on like why is that story getting so much traction? Why is it that everyone's aware of it and yet no one's doing anything about it and they're still pushing to be I think it's interesting that it's all over local news and that's why people are talking about it.
SPEAKER_04Is very similar to COVID. Let's go back months before we got shut down. Okay. So we'll go back to the very beginning of COVID, and they were showing us other countries that were, you know, just tragedy, tragedy, tragedy, tragedy. Yeah. And um that's what this reminds me of is and so on one hand I'm kind of waiting, like, so are they gonna show start showing us how AI in another country is, you know, taking over, and then be like, by the way, guys, here we come. Yeah, you know I'm like, this is the only solution, is if you blah blah blah. So one of my clients went to California, um, San Francisco area. Well, apparently there are a lot of I don't know if they call them Ubers, but they're not actually people. Those cars, you know, it's like a taxi without a driver.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, way way better.
SPEAKER_04Wait. What happens is there are a lot of vehicles like this out there, and so you don't actually call for one.
unknownYep.
SPEAKER_04There's not a person that's an autonomous vehicle. Well, they have had instances where the electricity goes out. Well, what happens is those cars they stop working and they lock the doors. Everything shuts down. Great.
SPEAKER_02We saw Waymo in Baltimore, so like they're here.
SPEAKER_04Like we're I I mean, do I think that that could be a very tragic thing? That's why you're not gonna ever catch me dead in one.
SPEAKER_02Just we might catch you dead in one, but yes.
SPEAKER_04I wouldn't have put myself in there. I I will have not gotten in there myself, so y'all want to question how I got in there. That's true.
SPEAKER_02If Rachel goes missing and is dead and she was in a Waymo, then the foul play was that was involved.
SPEAKER_04Self-driving like Tesla or something like that. I I did not do that myself.
SPEAKER_02I promised you that one. I mean, you know, it's just another list of like another way to be anxious, another way to die, another being anxious, I would just choose not to. True, but I mean it's like a compounding thing. Like we already knew that there was like drive in cars in general are not safe, you know? It's like water bottles. Yeah.
SPEAKER_04Because of the plastic. So we're finding plastic in the case. Then somebody was like don't buy crocs because apparently it's not your beloved Crocs. What happened? Apparently, Crocs are the same exact thing as a water bottle, as oh the PIFOs.
SPEAKER_02Yeah. I mean, that's workout clothes. So it's like, well, you can't wear anything. You can't wear anything, don't work out because your clothes are killing you. I mean, it's true. It's like how You you either shut it off.
SPEAKER_03Yeah.
SPEAKER_04Completely. Yeah. And you just say, whatever. Or you sit there and then you have to sift through.
SPEAKER_02Not to mention how expensive cotton has gotten because of this movement. I bought um, and it wasn't even that good actually, which I'm really bummed about. Trying to think what the brand was called, but I I bought like 100% cotton workout clothes and that. I went down that whole thing. They were so expensive and ill-fitting. Yeah. And not to mention, like, then you have to worry about, well, how are you washing them? What laundry detergent are you using? What's in your water? You're ruining everything anyway. Like, yeah. I I have such an eye roll for for certain things now. I really I really I used to be very strict about about things, and now I'm kind of like, just put my arms up.
SPEAKER_04So that comes back to the whole like we talk about 40, right? Yeah. Okay. So it's our theme today. I like this. Um at 40. What can you do? Because I mean, if you haven't really been paying attention to all the things prior to turning that age, and then you're like, oh my gosh. Oh, the wheels are falling off, and you're like, where do I begin? Where do I even start, right? That's true. So like you look at things and you go, now what? Yeah. Now what? So it's a big question. Somebody like me who pays very, very close attention to my skin and I have since I was a child because I had horrible acne. Um, and again, acne is not curable. It's just something that you have to deal with and try to get under control as best as you can. Um You just upset a lot of people listening. Yeah. I mean, it's it's it's not a curable thing. It's something that you have to work really hard on to kind of just maintain and hope that you find a good balance for it. Whether that's a lot of people's diet, also like products that you're using, not just for on your face, your your detergents. Yeah, we're talking about that. Yep. Things on your clothes, your perfumes, your hairsprays.
SPEAKER_02Um well, this is interesting. I mean, if you really start at the top and work your way down at 40, it like you said, if the wheels start falling off, well, okay, have you ever exercised, or are you someone who exercises all the time and then things go haywire? Right. I would say you're you're better off never have been doing anything, right, and then start making little changes, and you'll likely see it's mainly the ones who are already actively doing things that things start to fall off. Now, I will say, hopefully, if you're that person, then you've already had blood work done and you you will more easily be able to identify what is going on. But sometimes it's the opposite. Sometimes it's I'm doing too much, and then you have to dial it back and see how your body responds. Right. And that's hard too.
SPEAKER_04And for skincare, like that's something that I've had to do, is I was using a ton of products. For your skin, what's been your biggest issue since turning 40? I, for whatever reason, um 40, 40, like it like my pores for one, have just been seemingly been like, I look in the mirror and I'm like, Jesus. Like growing? Yeah, like but they're not necessarily growing. So like that's you know, that's the appearance the appearance of them has been much more drastic, okay, um, in my opinion, which that has a lot more to do with the elastin and collagen that starts to break down quicker once you hit 40. And it's like I look at it and for me it's been probably slowly been there, just a little bit, but maybe I'm just now like really hyper-focused on it because of the number, not necessarily.
SPEAKER_02I was gonna say what comes first. Is it the fact that you turn 40 and you know that 40's been linked to all these changes, or is it that you notice all these changes and you're like, oh, I just turned 40? Like, are you looking for it?
SPEAKER_04You know what I it was first is my my breakouts. Like I just so I do, and that's gonna be something that I'm working on in the like within the next month or so, um, trying to get blood work just to see like how my hormones have to be off at this point in time. So, how off are they? And if I made a slight adjustment to them, would that help to negate my skin kind of freaking out lately?
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_04And like I go weak and I'll be okay, and then all of a sudden it's like bam, here you go. Have a nice day. And I also have noticed that I always have said, like, I'm quote unquote oily, while I was throwing everything, you know, not throwing everything, but using a lot of products, and then I slowly had started to take them away. I do think that I need to start upping more of the moisture and stuff. Um, but using active, anything that has a lot of actives in it right now is just too much. Too much. Yeah. And making me go, making my skin go, oh, you thought that was bad. You thought that was bad. Oh, I'm gonna show you. Yeah. Um, so that is something that I've noticed. The other thing that I really haven't been able to microneedle, which is like my holy grail, right? Especially when it comes to pores and texture and stuff, because I've had the breakouts, I have not been able to do the microneedling. Um, and I haven't, you know, we had summer and I did like a heavier treatment of CO2, so haven't done appeal yet. So I do plan on doing that, which I think will help. And once I if I'm able to do that and get that under control, then I'll microneedle, which helps my pores. So that's a good whole much.
SPEAKER_02That's a good question. So if you're having an active breakout, you're better off doing a peel than microneedling.
SPEAKER_04Or a laser that is not invasive, um, because it will it can spread. So you know, when you're having an active breakout, it's an infection. And so consider that. If you have an infection, you're poking a bunch of needles in it, and then you're taking those needles and you're poking them other places, you're literally just putting that you're transferring it. You're transferring it everywhere. Whereas you know the steel is on top of the skin.
SPEAKER_02It's a topical. Okay. Let's say I have a microneedling appointment scheduled. Right. And I wake up that morning and I'm like, I just got a big one right on my forehead. That's not a problem. Right. So it's more like when you've got what? How much is too much?
SPEAKER_04I'm gonna say, like, if you have one on your cheek, one on your forehead, one on your like if it is just like a single one. Okay. Okay, like in a handful or under, like that's fine. If you're starting to have tiny little ones and in a larger area, it's just not a good idea. Okay. You come in and you're like, I look at your face and I'm like, oi.
SPEAKER_02Now, are you just changing it up in the moment? Because not everyone knows that. So, hey, let's do a PLT. I'm changing it up. So And a lot of people still think it's a one and done. I'm gonna get this thing and I'm gonna look amazing and and that's all I need.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, yeah. And it's and I always tell people however long it took you to get to where you are today, yeah, it's good. It's gonna take time to reverse or stop the process. So if it took you 40 years to get your skin where it is right now, yeah, you're not going to get a procedure unless you're having a facelift or you're burning your entire face off. Which yeah, you can do. You can do, but we're not doing that for you. Um you're gonna go to a plastic surgeon's office, you're gonna have a lot of downtime, and you're gonna pay a a coin or two.
SPEAKER_02Well, for the facelift, yeah, but don't dermatologists do like hardcore um You're gonna pay a coin or two. Oh, I know that for that guy. Oh yeah.
SPEAKER_04Um the pile one where you're literally smelting off. Yes. It literally like you're not going out in public because you're a burn victim for three months, maybe if you're lucky. That's wild. Um I mean, they're out there. I mean, it's incredibly painful. We don't recommend that. I mean, if you needed it. Who needs it? Yeah, right. I mean, there are some people that if they're like, I want now, I want this fixed, I can hide in my house for three months. I Well, if you've got the time and you know, um if their skin is that bad, if they have horrible acne scarring, large pores, sun damage, lost ton of elasticity and collagen, like You're kind of like starting over. You are. And so, you know, you're you're trying to literally create fresh skin. And that's that if that sounds good to you, it's out there.
SPEAKER_02It is not there. It's not our first recommendation. But it is out there.
SPEAKER_04It is out there. And and there actually are some surgeons that, like, let's say you needed a facelift, they'll do that and they'll also do a a chemical peel like that or a CO2, like the most intense CO2 treatment you could get, pretty much. Um and do a combination of that. Which I mean, honestly, if it were me and I was doing a facelift and I was doing all that, I'd do it too. You're already down to the game. I'm just saying, if if you go somewhere and they tell you that that that's what you need and you're you're already p just just do it. Balls to the wall.
SPEAKER_01You think you'll ever get a facelift?
SPEAKER_04Absolutely, if I need one. Hell yeah. Would you?
SPEAKER_02Yeah.
SPEAKER_04I already You already have your sergeant picked out. No, I don't. See, the thing is, is that I don't know if either of us at 50 would qualify for that at that point. And I wouldn't.
SPEAKER_02I wouldn't only want to do it at that point. My philosophy, and this isn't everyone's, it's just mine personally, is I want to do it early enough that it's not gonna be like a crazy, like obvious thing. But I don't want to do it, I don't want to do it too early in that then I have to get another one. Yeah. So I don't know that sweet spot, but I only want to do one in my life. I know. 60? I was thinking 60.
SPEAKER_04I feel like 60. Um But I I also think like, okay, would it need a full facelift at that point, or would you also need like a neck and partial? Because it's gonna depend on gravity. Looking at you, you have a very tiny forehead. I know. You don't have That's why I didn't get bangs. You don't have um I don't think you're gonna need a bluff.
SPEAKER_02Uh no, I don't know.
SPEAKER_04I don't think you're gonna need that either. So when I look at you, I think you might need a lower face. It's gonna be it would be a lower facelift. But if you're like if you're gonna do a lower facelift, do your neck too.
SPEAKER_02Oh yeah, definitely. They go together. You can't do one and not the other because they're all connected. I've seen it. Do the necklift, people.
SPEAKER_04I've seen and I've also seen just a neck lift. Mmm. No, that's also ridiculous. It's like tight neck, saggy face. No. Yeah. I mean So start the things at 40. Because that's just the number today we're gonna go with. Because, you know, if you haven't done sunscreen, start it today. Just if you haven't done basic skincare, start it today. Start today. Yeah. Call 1-800.
SPEAKER_02Start today. 40.
SPEAKER_01Uh yeah, I mean i sh the hormonal changes. Like I would say all of it. If you haven't worked out, start today. And start with just walking. Yes. Just increasing it.
SPEAKER_02Build a habit. Drink a little a little bit more water. Uh eat a little bit more Protein? Protein for sure, but I don't know. Like this whole like GLP one thing just has me. I just worry that people are just are not eating. They're just completely like twelve hundred calories is not enough.
SPEAKER_04Do you did I tell you what I how many calories it said that I needed to sustain my body? Oh tell me. I'm actually very curious. Have you gone have you gotten on the scale recently? Or did you ever get on the in-body? I did. Not recently though. It'll tell you approximately what you need to maintain. But I I personally needed 2100 calories a day to maintain. I'm like, you're funny. Yeah. That's hysterical to me. I couldn't tell you the last time I probably ate that many calories in a day.
SPEAKER_02Oh wow.
SPEAKER_04I mean, some days I'm probably lucky if I get 500. And it's because I just Don't think about it.
SPEAKER_02Oh my god. Everyone right now is like ripping off their headphones and throwing them out the window. Uh but well, yeah. I mean that can be that's a lot of people's stories too, or they're very inconsistent. They'll do if you're not tracking and you're just generally curious, the hardest part is tracking as if you're not tracking. Yeah. Because once you start tracking, that's when you're like, oh well, oh, I better adjust this. It's it's truly you have to track without any judgment on your s on your part to get the real data. You will be shocked with how little protein you're having, how few calories, or the opposite, still how little protein, but how many extra extra calories you're having. Yeah. And at certain times of the day.
SPEAKER_04Um so And my highest calorie intake usually is when I get home from work. Yep. And if that's super late at night, then I'm eating that. But I also don't I can't it I can't just eat and go to bed. Ever. Why? I don't know why I can't just eat food and then like I need at least two hours after I eat. Interesting. Before I'm going to bed. This might be.
SPEAKER_02Um I wonder if you're not sleeping because you need to eat because I'm hungry or something. Not even that you're hungry, but your your body isn't um, you know, when like it's always like the thing if you you have a big meal, you want to go to sleep. It's not even so much about like Thanksgiving and I think. I need Thanksgiving. That's what I was thinking.
SPEAKER_04I was like, any Thanksgiving every day.
SPEAKER_02You know, like for children, you do warm milk before bed. It's just a it's just something to it well, it is true. You don't want to eat and then go to bed because you your body needs to rest and digest while you're awake, and then when you're sleeping, it it recovers other things. So you don't want to have it busy digesting when it could be repairing something else in your body. But I do wonder if because you are probably I'm gonna I'm just gonna say you're probably malnourished or undernourished, but your body can't rest because it needs nutrients to do so. Yeah. So I wonder if that could be a little habit that you could start is just maybe just not not like we're not adding so much that you can't do it. Yeah. But try and consciously add a little something in the day and see if and just build on that and see if that helps. Yeah. I think jumping to 2100 is very difficult.
SPEAKER_04I just am also one of those people, it's out of sight, out of mind. I don't unless I start to get lightheaded for some reason because I'm really, really need to eat something, or my stomach just won't stop.
SPEAKER_02Right. I just actually hunger signals kick up and you're like, I need to eat.
SPEAKER_04I I just go, go, go, go, go. Yeah. Like the Energizer Bunny.
SPEAKER_02I I just don't want you to hit a wall and then it's because you're going, going, going, and you're not paying attention, and all of a sudden it's like a lot of things are going haywire for you. Um yeah, I wonder if you could just start having a little something, something. Yeah. A little snack, a little snacky food. Um more so during the day, because then you're not gonna go home and like devour everything in sight, and then you have to stay up because you can't sleep. Yeah. Yeah. We're gonna fix you.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_04Yeah. It's always fun, right?
SPEAKER_02I um I started tracking again uh recently, and even I was surprised I was under. And I was at one point I was eating like 2,600 calories, but that's because I was like actively trying to build muscle. So I'm I would say 18 to 1900 calories is a very, it's very healthy for a woman. 1200 is not sustainable. No. And it's also very shameful. It's just like you're just stuck at that, and it's very limiting. I feel like 1819 is very it allows, has a little bit more wiggle room, and it's not that I think 2,000 is very scary to some people in terms of it being too much. Yeah. Um, but it's very individual.
SPEAKER_04I think you should get on the scale and see what it it actually says for you. Oh, the embody scam. As far as like maintenance.
SPEAKER_02I really should now because I'm my muscles, it's definitely my strength has gone down. So I I would actually now would be a good time.
SPEAKER_04I should get on it before and then start start and see what happens, even in a month. Like, okay, where are you now? And then one month from now, where are you? Um, I think that that is again, we've talked about that before with the GLP ones, it's like getting on the scale and seeing where are you based off of your nutritional intake.
SPEAKER_02Um well before you say further, I just want to put out like a a PSA about the GLP1. I've been seeing a lot of like GLP1s causing hair loss. I'm like, no, guys, it's not the GLP one. It's you're malnourished and you're under-eating and your nutrients are low, and that's what makes your hair fall out. It's no different than an anorexic losing their hair. That is a major common thing. And I'm just noticing that their uh marketing is trying to make it seem like that's not it. It's oh no, I just have GLP1 scalp, I just have thinning hair. And I'm like, oh wow.
SPEAKER_04Um, when you are not able to get your body's not able to absorb nutrients the way that it it typically was, um, or you're just not putting enough in to give your body the opportunity to absorb nutrients, you're going to find that your lashes, your hair, your your body hair, things are not going to seem as they were. Healthy. They're not going to be thriving the way they were prior. I will say, like, I'm not dealing with I I have to be getting enough. My hair is not falling out in clumps, it's not doing any of those things. But everybody's body is very different as to what it requires as far as the nutrients it requires, the amount of food, the amount of water, um, and so that's something that you have to pay attention to. And any medication can do that to you. Um, but what we're finding is again, the GLP ones are helping to stop those cravings, those hunger feelings, um, and divert them in a different direction to whatever that may be. And so if you are not getting adequate enough protein and nutrients in your body, that's gonna happen. And it's not going to change until you start to feed your body the way it needs to be.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, just remember the GLP1 is not some miracle drug in that it helps or it just causes weight loss, right? It's it's making dieting easier, is really what it's doing. It's turning off all your hunger cues. Yes, the food noise, whatever, however they want to word it. It's helping you not eat, is is all it's doing.
SPEAKER_04It's it's helping the food addiction, which it really is. I mean everyone. I'm not saying it doesn't.
SPEAKER_02It it for sure works, but it's don't be dumb and think it's this miracle thing. Like, well, if I start taking, if you're already, we've talked about this a hundred times. If you're already eating a thousand calories, do not get on a GLP one. Yeah. You're gonna eat 500, you're gonna be dead soon. And it's yeah. So there's that. And I'm pro, I am pro. I think they are amazing. I just I just want to I have been seeing that a lot too.
SPEAKER_04Or people are like, oh, I can get a GLP one really cheap from here. And I've had other people like, oh, we can get it, I can get it really cheap from here. Listen, guys, we I am not here to be like, this is the only place that you can get it, this is the best, this shit, whatever. Um, but you do have to look into where you are getting things. If you have to mix it yourself at home, it's probably not the best bet. If you're mixing your own product. Yeah, that's scary. If you're getting a product and it's not you're not feeling the same effect from it every single time, or you feel like, oh, one batch worked pretty good, the next one didn't. You're probably not getting it from a place that's testing it appropriately. So you also might want to think about that too. Um, so again, it's just don't be cheap.
SPEAKER_02Don't be cheap. I say it every time. Don't be cheap. Anyway. Don't be cheap. That's our PSA. Don't be cheap. Um, well, this was fun. Yeah. This is a good one.
SPEAKER_04Good time. So so you're gonna be I've already hit that number. That number's coming from you. Do you have goals?
SPEAKER_02Well, my main goal, which I'm starting on Monday, is to get my strength back. Um I really would like to be in a body that feels more capable. I'm feeling a little a little weak, dreaming about it. You know, it's not good. Um, so that's like my number one. And I just want to just make that my my norm. That would be nice. Um I mean, yeah, I would like for my skin to be nice to me and kind to me. I don't want dermatitis to come back, which I'm already fully prepared that that's probably what's gonna happen, but I'm trying to just kick that down the down the line. Um I would say at this point it's just more prevention, but I mean, like I said, you can just round up. I'm probably already experiencing I'm definitely having like brain fog, and it varies. There's no brain pill that you can take to suddenly like think at full capacity, but I don't know. I'm scared, I know that. And how much longer do we have? Big birthday bash? Two years. Two years. I'm 38.
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SPEAKER_02Or whatever. But uh year and a half. I know. It's really a year and a half, and I'm I'm choosing to round down in that way. It's two years. I'm 38, and I'm almost yeah, I know. It's icky. It's icky.
SPEAKER_04I mean, it's fine.
SPEAKER_02Not a fragment.
SPEAKER_04And again, it's not the number you think like, oh, midlife crisis. It's not that I honestly would just say it's like 40 can be great. Like there's a lot of great things that can come with it. For me, I'm just noting noticing a lot of the body changes, a lot of the changes in my skin, and that's kind of more where it's frustrating. It's a it's a frustrating thing to As a control freak. I don't like that personally. And it it's true, unfortunately, our bodies just kind of start to when you're a female, change. 40. More so than more so than a lot of the other guess as a teenager because everything starts to kick in, and then 40 because everything really starts to kick out.
SPEAKER_02Perhaps some of our older, more experienced listeners can leave a comment on the latest podcast and let us know at what age does it start to get better? Yeah.
SPEAKER_04Well, and I would like to know too, like for anybody that's listening, if you feel like you have hit that age or you're close to it, have you started noticing any of those things that we kind of talked about? And we're gonna be going for it.
SPEAKER_02Tell us your secrets. Yeah. And we'll tell you ours. Yeah once we gather that data. We'll go with that. 41's gonna be great. It will. Well, it's what you make of it. I do think mindset is a big one. Yeah. I really I mean, and that's with anything, the power of the mind is what they say.
SPEAKER_04So there are certain things that you can change without certain things, other things to work on.
SPEAKER_02Let's all work on ourselves. Yes. There we go. That's your homework. Um, anything else you want to add? No. This was an interesting one. Yeah. Um, don't forget to like and follow and send and share and comment and all the followers.
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