Join John Rush for another insightful episode of Rush to Reason, where the discussion dives into preparing for college and the unforeseen challenges that come with it. Health and Wellness Wednesday kicks off with tips on maintaining well-being even in unpredictable circumstances. Expert guest Michael Bailey shares wisdom on ensuring your college-bound teenager is fully prepared legally and financially, tackling issues that most parents overlook. The episode also celebrates National Pumpkin Day, featuring Nancy McCurney from the Bakehouse Bread Company. Discover delightful pumpkin-themed recipes perfect for the fall season and learn about the humble beginnings of a now-nationally recognized
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I’m sorry that I’m fat. All right. Welcome. Health and Wellness Wednesday, Rush to Reason, Denver’s Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. Michael Bailey joining me during this first segment of today’s show. Michael, how are you? I’m good. How are you, John? Michael has his festive Halloween gear on. That’s true. Tie, shirt, the whole bit.
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You know, I have a couple of Halloween ties and some orange dress shirts, and it’s hard to wear them the rest of the year.
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You break them out when you need to or when you can.
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I have green dress shirts and red dress shirts, but those are more Christmas-y than Halloween-y. This is perfect. It works out great.
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All right, and the reason why we said Michael on is, A, he’s always on before I am every Wednesday from 2.30 to 3, so you can always tune in and listen to Michael with his own program. But Michael has a lot to do with, you know, not necessarily the health of individuals, but what happens when you don’t necessarily – have great health or something happens. I mean, Michael, there’s times where, you know, we could be in the best of health and we do everything we’re supposed to, but something happens. There’s surgeries, there’s car accidents, there’s things that are, you know, way beyond our control that really it doesn’t have anything to do with how healthy we’ve been. Stuff just happens sometimes. That’s correct.
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I mean, we got an interesting education in that this week. Okay. On Monday, I… came home from work and I’m like, Oh, I’m going to go out running. And so I was like, Hey babe. So my, my wife, you know, she was, she walked beside me and I went, so I would run and she would walk beside me. I just hadn’t seen her all day. So I could talk to her and we were out and there was apparently a little bit of the sidewalk where It was uneven. Yep. So I hear a couple of steps as my wife is trying to catch herself as she’s falling and she goes down and now she has a broken bone in her elbow.
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Oh, no.
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And you’re like, that’s just, you go out on a walk, you don’t expect to come home with a broken elbow. And, you know, she hasn’t, you know, hurt herself or broken anything in 15 years. But, you know, whether your health or wellness is there or not, You know, I mean, we’re all one, you know, one stupid driver away from things.
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Oh, yeah. One, you know, and they call them accidents for a reason, but, you know, one accident away from something happening. I had a conversation with one of our listeners the other day on one of the other shows, not this show, but one of my weekend shows. Sure. brought up the whole, you know, I hear Michael, and I never really thought about this whole when your kids go to college end of things, making sure things are dialed in along those lines. So we had a little bit of a conversation, and granted, it wasn’t necessarily in this show, in this setting, but spent a little bit of time, and I said, you know, that’s something that next time Michael’s on, which you are right now on The Daily Show, you know, I thought I would mention that to everybody, and you could even talk about that for a moment, how important that is. And I will tell you that when all of my kids went off, I didn’t know. You didn’t think about those things at that time. Fortunately, never had any issues. But now looking back on it, probably one of the things we should have had dialed in.
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Also, it was a different time when your kids went to college. That’s true. There were different rules. Yeah. Our youngest is 33 now, so that was quite a while ago. So when I went to college, and I’m a little over 33, but I had a roommate who spilled hot water on his feet at his job in the cafeteria, burned the top of his feet. So he had to go to the hospital, and his parents could call in and talk to the doctors, and everything was fine. Well, now, you go off to college and you’re 18. There are HIPAA laws that say your doctors and your nurses cannot discuss an adult’s private health information with you, even if you are the parents.
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And, you know, there’s – I’ve had – Which most parents would look at that and say, what are you talking about? I’ve been with them their entire life. I’m probably now supporting them still financially in this particular scenario.
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Exactly.
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And you’re going to now tell me that I can’t know what’s going on when something happens health-wise? You hit the magic age of 18, that’s what happens.
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I mean, for us, you know, my daughter, she was on a – just for – Like skin, clearer skin and, you know, a little bit of a mood stabilizer. It’s like a very low dose of what was a birth control drug. And so, you know, we ordered it for her and picked it up from the time she was 15, 16, 17. And then the day she turned 18, they wouldn’t talk to us anymore. Oh, wow. And, you know, is that, you know, we could have a whole conversation about that good, bad, or otherwise. It just is what it is. It is. That’s what you’re dealing with. And so you do that. And then, you know, let’s say you go off to college. And you have somebody who gets really sick or injured at college and they need to withdraw from, you know, let’s get somebody who gets, you know, we’ll jump back a few years to get a college kid who gets COVID and ends up on a COVID floor and, you know, is, you know, on a ventilator for two months and, you know, makes a recovery. Great. But that two months, you got to withdraw the kid from this from school, right? You have to deal with the financial aid folks. You have to deal with the tuition folks and all that. So you’ve got medical, you’ve got financial, and if your kid’s 18, they’re not talking to you. So when your kids go off to college, it’s one of those, again, you don’t want to be like, oh, hey, we’re leaving for college next week. We probably ought to get powers of attorney done. I’m like, well, you might want to plan ahead a little bit on that. And it’s just not something you think about because you’re excited about going off to college and you’re going to you know, what are we going to major in, and how are we going to decorate the dorm room, and all those cool, fun, exciting things. And, oh, hey, guess what? They’re going to be 18, so we have to worry about this.
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Good point. No, and that was part of the conversation I had, you know, on air that day was right along those lines that, you know, these are things that, you know, you don’t really think about. And unless things have changed, Michael, and you would know this more than I, do the schools and the institutions even tell you that you need to have these things done, or is it more of, Yeah, they’re 18, and they’re on their own, and we don’t really care about mom and dad. In other words, is it a part of the checklist when you’re going through enrollment and all that sort of stuff? Probably not. Okay. So in other words, most people wouldn’t think about this because nobody’s telling them.
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Right. And, you know, your college is more trying to get you enrolled in classes. Right. And, you know, I mean, that’s, you know, for big universities and trying to figure out how to navigate the – Maybe my dad talks about when he was registering for classes in college and you’d be at the field house and you’d like run between the different things and try to pick up a card so that you could get into class. And now it’s all electronic online. But everybody’s system is slightly different. And oh, by the way, the college has to figure out how to get you into housing and how do you bookstore and all of the stuff that goes into the education portion of it. I mean, schools, both elementary, junior high, high schools, and colleges – They don’t, you know, like the practical aspect of things isn’t really their focus.
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Right. Nope, makes total sense. So for those of you listening, you may not be, you may have all of your stuff in order. You might have your estate all dialed in. Michael may have even done all of that. You might have everything all divvied up as to how things are going to happen, the living will, all of the different things, the power of attorneys, financial and medical and all of that. But you forgot, oh, wait a minute. We’ve got a 16-year-old that’s now 17 that’s not far from 18. Mm-hmm. that we not necessarily forgot about but there’s another added piece now we need to take care of right so let’s go sit down we’ll take an hour get it the reason i’m mentioning this is for some of you that are listening you may actually have kids because i know what your schedule is like you may have kids turning 18 next spring you may want to very well get that taken care of and get on the books now because it’ll be here sooner than you think
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Sure. And if you, you know, I mean, I’m booking January-ish, you know, like the last, almost last week of January right now.
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So you might have kids that turn 18 this spring. I would suggest you get in there and get going now is my point. So, you know, we can give you a call. We’ll get something set up. All right. All right, Michael Bailey, again, you can find him at our website, RushToReason.com. You can go to KLZRadio.com. Pretty much anywhere that I am at, .com, you can find Michael there. And worst comes to worst, Michael, what is your direct phone number they can call you at? 720-394-6887. Perfect. All right, Veteran Windows and Doors coming up next. If you want to save a lot of money on Windows and Doors, go direct to the source. They cut out the middleman. Talk to Dave today. Just go to KLZRadio.com.
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All right, we are back, and it is, again, Health and Wellness Wednesday. Appreciate you all joining us. Nancy McCurney joining us now. Nancy, welcome. How are you today?
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I’m great. How are you?
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I’m doing great. You are from the Bakehouse Bread Company. Thank you for joining us. And I apologize. I had this in my notes earlier, but I didn’t put down the actual day. What day is National Pumpkin Day?
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It is the 26th.
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Okay, so coming right up. It is around the corner. Yeah, literally just around the corner, given it’s National Pumpkin. The last guest I had on, by the way, had an orange shirt on, looked just like a pumpkin. So, yeah, we’re all in that theme right now. So it’s very fitting that you are here today. It worked out perfect. First of all, tell us a little bit about Bakehouse Bread Company, if you would.
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So we’ve been in business since 1996, and we’re located in Tucson, Arizona. And we sell products nationwide and also from our website. Okay. And our two best sellers are zucchini bread and pumpkin bread.
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Okay.
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So it’s fitting.
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And I’ve had somebody on that has talked about your company before. I’ve never had anybody directly from the company. And from what I understand, your products are made fresh, scratch, high ingredients. In other words, what you get is going to be top quality, very much like if you made it at home. Am I correct in saying it that way?
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100%.
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Okay. Yeah, yes. Actually, our zucchini bread is – Basically, it was from my 92-year-old mother’s recipe way back in the day. Awesome. Yes, yes.
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I’m at your website right now. It looks delicious, by the way. I will have to go pick some up and try it. I like those sorts of bread. Well, I’m a bread guy, period. It’s one of my problems, actually. I could sit down and have that at every meal, which I’m not supposed to, but I could very easily. And I should mention this. You guys have—it’s not just pumpkin. You guys have a wide variety of breads that you guys have.
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We do. We do. We have— cranberry orange. We’re going to be shipping a product called gingerbread for the holidays. In your local King Soopers, you can find the pumpkin, zucchini, cinnamon swirl, Okay. Cranberry orange, yes.
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Okay. And are they going to carry, because I don’t know, I don’t go. My wife normally does the grocery shop, and I spend a lot of time working, so I don’t spend a lot of time in the grocery store. I’ll be the first to admit that, so I’ll have to ask her on this end. Do they sell the three packs that you have on the website at King Soopers, or is it all individual?
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It’s all individual, yes. Because it’s got, so it has basically a, like up to a 14-day shelf life once it’s thawed. Okay. We ship in three packs just because we’re shipping expedited because it’s, you know, we want it to be the freshest when it arrives at your door.
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Yeah. Makes sense. Okay, so given that National Pumpkin Day is coming around, you know, just around the corner, I’m assuming you guys probably have a pumpkin-type bread to fit with that.
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You know, so what I like to do, I like to, and I’ve seen… People do all kinds of things. But I love it just sliced, but you can slice it and sandwich a little cream cheese between it. You can cut it into cubes and maybe make a little parfait. Throw it on a shark. Everyone does charcuterie boards now. Put it on a charcuterie board. Right now I’m seeing in the grocery store tubs of already made caramel sauce. You could get a squirty whipped cream. Kids love that, even adults. some sliced apples, maybe some raisins on the side. You could also slice it, scoop a vanilla ice cream and hot fudge, chocolate. Chocolate and pumpkin go really, really well together. Yeah, so those are kind of some things that we like to do at our house, and I’ve seen a lot of friends do too.
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Well, and from looking at your products and, again, looking at what I can see online, again, and I’ve interviewed folks that know your product very well, it’s the kind of product where, for a lot of you listening, where if you’ve got an event coming up and, you know, we’ve got holidays just around the corner, Nancy, and some people, you know, they’re really good at baking. They’ve got all kind of time, and they can do all those things and so on. On the same token, some people feel already overwhelmed with everything happening around the holidays, and I’m guessing – probably a pretty good guess, that your product for those particular individuals where they want to add a few things to the tables, maybe is the best way to say that, your product fits right into that because they don’t have to spend a ton of time slaving over making it work.
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Exactly. And it looks like, you know, you could pick one up and you could – Rip the label off and pretend you made it yourself. Nobody would know the difference, right? You know what?
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And the reason I say that, for those of you that can’t see the pictures, it’s literally made the same way a regular loaf would be made if you were making it at home. In other words, and I know it’s hard to describe that, but a regular small bread pan like you would make banana bread or something like that in, that’s how you guys are doing it. So to your point, you could lay that out on a board and no one would know the difference.
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No one would know the difference. And you can, you know, we keep the package simple so you can see it really well. It’s just a simple shrink wrap and a simple label. And so the customer, you know, you can see the quality in it. And we do a lot of grand openings for our customers. And it’s just always fun to get feedback from customers like, wow. This is really good. This is really good.
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Okay, so I’m an entrepreneur myself, so I always have to ask, what got you going? I know it’s been decades since you started all of this, but what got you going in the first place, Nancy?
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You know, to be honest with you, I was working in Silicon Valley, big company. My husband was working. We wanted to do something different. At the time, kind of boutique bakeries were a big thing. And so we… We packed our stuff and moved to Tucson and opened a bakery, and Tucson welcomed us. And then, you know, kind of one thing led to another, and now we’re nationwide in Tucson. all the local grocery stores. In fact, we were recently in Denver visiting with a potential new customer. So it’s a beautiful area.
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Well, thank you for saying that.
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Every time I’m there, I’m like, I love it there.
SPEAKER 06 :
Well, thank you for saying that. And it’s funny, you’re talking about all this. My son and I, on my way down to the station today, we were talking about some other companies and how they had started and what they have done and how big they have gotten and so on. And I love those types of stories because to me, you know, we still live in the land of opportunity. If you’ve got an idea and you can work hard enough to see that idea to fruition, then you know what? So be it. And I’m always behind individuals like yourself.
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Thank you. Thank you. We appreciate that a lot.
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Well, and I want to promote that because I like, I’m a small business owner, medium-sized, I guess, in today’s world, but a medium-sized business owner, and I like to see others accomplish, you know, their dreams, do the things that they set out to do. Again, we still, I believe, we still live in the land of opportunity, and you’re living proof of that.
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And 100%. And you can go to bakehousebreadcompany.com, go to your local King’s Super, or go to bakehousebreadcompany.com if you want to ship some to a friend.
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Oh, you know what? Great idea. So those of you listening that are thinking, okay, you know, there’s always that person in your life where you always wonder, what should I get? Or somebody’s had, you know, something that’s just, you know, happened recently and you want to get something for them and you’re trying to figure out, you know, what is that? And for some people, maybe even when they have different events, you know, flowers and things like that. Personally, Nancy and I love flowers and all of that. But, you know, I like feeding my stomach, to be honest with you. So at the end of the day, this works fine for me over flowers, just to be honest with you.
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And what we tell everybody is it freezes really well. So you get three loaves in the pack, but you can share some with a friend or a neighbor or put a couple in the freezer for a later day.
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Awesome. Well, it’s been a joy having you. I appreciate it very much. And again, October 26th is National Pumpkin Day. So, Nancy, thank you. And again, you guys are welcome anytime. You want to come back on, just reach out, let us know, and we’ll get you back on, especially as we get around the holidays. It would be a great time to do this again. So just let me know, and we’ll have you back.
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Wonderful. Thank you so much.
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You’re very welcome, Nancy. Have a great rest of your day. I appreciate it. And for all of you listening, you know my heart. You know where I come from when it comes to small business. And anybody that starts off and they’re not small any longer, as you heard them talk about being nationwide, but they started small just like a lot of other companies do. And I’m always here to help promote those particular individuals. And again, I hope you will as well. And I will say this. I will go and get their product, try it out. That’s the way we do things around here. So I will go try that out. And next time we have them on, I can actually talk about it that way. All right, let’s take a quick break. We’re going to have Troy Duhl join us here in just a few minutes. Somebody else, by the way, that we have on a routine basis. And I got a message from somebody today looking to reach out to Troy directly. So we’ll talk more about that with Troy when he gets here in a moment. We’re going to talk about ADHD because October is ADHD month. Awareness Month. Ridgeline Auto Brokers coming up next. If you’re looking for a new used car, they’ve got great inventory. If there’s something they don’t have, they’ll be sure to look for that for you as well. Just let them know. Give them a call today. RidgelineAutoBrokers.com.
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All right, I got a text message a moment ago to re-say, because I just got the tail end of that interview I just had with Nancy, and she is the owner of Bake House Bread Company, and it’s bakehousebreadcompany.com. Just spell it all out. Now, you can buy from them online. They’ve got all of the assortments there you can buy online, or they are in King Soopers in all of our local areas, I believe all the way up into Wyoming and so on. So, Those of you that would like to just go ahead and maybe buy a loaf, try it before you actually go online and maybe buy some things that they may not have at the store. Again, they ship these in three packs. Every single bread they have comes in a three pack because, as she was saying, it’s frozen. They send it out to you. You get it home. You can keep a couple of them frozen. Keep one frozen. Share one. However you want to do it. Or you can just unthaw them all and eat them that way. It’s really up to you as to how you want to do that. But for those of you, again, somebody that may have caught the tail end of that, Nancy was the owner, Nancy McCurney. It’s Bakehouse Bread Company, and it’s bakehousebreadcompany.com. So that’s how you find them, and you can, again, you can order online or online. All of our local King’s Super Stores has them, and they were just out here recently talking to potentially, sounds like maybe somebody else, that they might be able to get in their, you know, be stocked on their shelves is maybe the best way for me to say that. So you might actually see that expand here in our local Colorado area. And as that does happen, I’m sure we’ll get them back and have them on. She’s actually a company that Shanisty Ireland, who joins me on a pretty routine basis, has talked about in the past. So it was nice to actually talk to her. somebody from the actual company and and have them on i’ve not interviewed nancy in the past so i appreciate that very much troy dual joining us now as i said he would earlier troy welcome how are you good john how are you doing i’m doing great always a joy to have you i had somebody the other day asking you know in between having you on how to get a hold of you and all of that and i i let them know you know very quickly centurion labs for all of you listening that’s who troy is with and what’s the website troy real fast before we get going
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Yeah, centurion.health. So centurion.h-e-a-l-t-h.
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All right, so those of you listening, and I always get people that maybe go back and listen to an episode, Troy, or they remember something, and, hey, how do I get a hold of so-and-so? And you guys listening, you can always reach out, send me an email or a text message, and I’ll get you in touch with the right people that we have here on a routine basis. Troy, October is ADHD Awareness Month, and it’s not just kids that are affected. Sometimes we think that’s just a kid’s… sort of symptom or I don’t want to call it a disease, but just something that kids only go through. But that’s not the case at all, is it?
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It is not. And it’s continuing to grow. And I think a lot of it has to do with, obviously, awareness. But some of it has to do with the fact that we’re a very, very distracted culture. And if any of us have ever gone to a sports bar and there are 40 TV’s, At any point, one of us could say maybe we’re ADHD as well. Right. So it’s definitely growing.
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Right. And for those of you listening, some of you know me and some of you know me very well. This is one of those things where I don’t know what I could say, Troy, when I was growing up because we didn’t diagnose things back then like we do now. Did I have… you know, ADD? Did I have ADHD? You know, I’m one of those people that I don’t want to say that I’m easily distracted, but I can be doing a lot of things at one time. And I probably have some of this. And over the years, and I’ll share some of this throughout our interview today, over the years, I’ve learned how to deal with some of those things and still be able to function and get a lot of things done, you know, at the end of the day. But I will tell you that as a child, especially, not an easy thing to control.
SPEAKER 12 :
It’s not. And I think one thing that is an issue is The way our education system is built, people who have ADHD, it is not really built for those type kids, and especially boys. And I think there are a lot of boys who get labeled as ADHD when really they’re not. They’re just boys with extra energy, a little bit more easily distracted, as most boys are. But it’s interesting. if you can put a boy in something that they like doing, they typically don’t have an issue at all with staying focused or on task. But if it’s something they don’t like, it’s a much more difficult thing. And I think it’s one of those things that really as a culture, we probably need to shift our thinking on it because you said it yourself, you’ve learned how to cope with it. And really having ADHD can be a superpower in many ways. So they found that a lot of high performing entrepreneurs and military leaders have had ADHD because they can take on many things at once and continue to maneuver those things. So it really is kind of a superpower that we need to look at it that way instead of putting a stigma on a lot of these kids.
SPEAKER 06 :
I agree. Oh, man, thank you for saying that because I appreciate that because I think there’s a lot of folks out there listening, even some younger people that may have had somebody tell them or they knew, hey, you know, you’ve got ADD or ADHD. And it’s sort of this negative label. And I’m with you. I look at that and say, well, wait, time out. I’m not I’m not so sure about that. In fact, typically speaking, folks that have, you know, ADD or ADHD typically will have a little bit higher IQ when it’s all said and done. Some of the studies I know say that and not saying mine is by any means true. I’m not saying that at all. I’m usually the dumbest person in the room whenever we’re meeting with somebody. But at the end of the day, I figured out how to manage these things. And one of the things, not to get completely off track, but I think our education system, this one size fits all, especially for folks that have one of these conditions, I’ll just say it straight up, Troy, it doesn’t work for them.
SPEAKER 12 :
It doesn’t. And it’s very difficult because there are a lot of people who like to learn with their hands. They want to experience things. And if you’re an experiential learner… It just doesn’t work to sit in a seat all day and listen to somebody talk. And somebody who has ADHD, they’re going to be much more apt to learn by touching things, by experiencing things. instead of sitting there and listening and taking it in. So totally agree with you.
SPEAKER 06 :
Okay, so let’s talk about if there’s folks listening and they know they’ve got this or they’ve got a child that maybe has this right as we speak, child, teenager, whatever the case may be, give us some tips on, number one, health-wise, because I know for me there’s certain things that work and don’t work, but give us some health recommendations along those lines.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yeah, and I’m sure it sounds somewhat like a broken record when we start talking about these things, but really, truly, diet is probably the number one thing. So we know that if you are fueling your brain with the right foods and you’re taking in omega-3s, lean proteins, fresh vegetables, you’re minimizing the intake of processed foods, then you are going to be much better off and your brain is going to be able to perform at a much higher level. You know, cut out the sugars. So we know that those things certainly have an impact on ADHD. And then if you dive in a little bit deeper with some of those processed foods, when you’re talking about dyes and preservatives, there are certain dyes and preservatives we know we need to avoid. So blue number one and two, interestingly enough – Blue number one is an ingredient in marshmallows.
SPEAKER 08 :
Oh, it’s not blue.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yeah, exactly. Not blue, that’s white. Exactly. I don’t understand why it’s in there, but I was looking at ingredients the other day and saw it in there and it kind of blew my mind. But green number three, red three and number 40, yellow five and number six, and then sodium benzoate, if that’s a preservative that you see in your foods, all of those dyes and preservatives have been linked to increased inability to focus or have attention for long periods of time. So those are things you definitely want to get right. The second thing that we’ll talk about is exercise. So we know that exercise is huge because it helps with oxygen, blood flow, everything else. But there was one study in 2022 that showed it helped improve attention, motor skills, and executive function significantly. in particular. So it’s going to help you stay sharp, help you keep focused, and I think that’s why even with men, boys in particular, at school, if you run them and they have PE, they perform much better the rest of the day. So that’s why I think it’s an important feature to have in school.
SPEAKER 06 :
I think, and I really want to dovetail something into that that for me personally I know is a factor, and this is for a lot of you listening, you know, Exercise doesn’t always mean, you know, you’ve got to go and lift weights or you have to run on a treadmill or you have to do this or you have to do that. For those of you that maybe it’s not for everybody because not everybody has the space to do this, but there are even certain, Troy, mechanical things that people can do that keep them busy. They’re still bending, lifting, doing things along those lines. In other words, some of these kids that work on the farm, for example, those sorts of things, even though it’s not, quote, unquote, exercise, it’s still it’s physical and they’re engaging their brain at the same time.
SPEAKER 12 :
Absolutely. And I think even simple things like if you work in a building that has three flights of stairs, take the stairs instead of taking the elevator. Great point. Do those little things that can help increase blood flow, give your body some time to really push things out and keep the oxygen flow into your brain. So a big piece of it. Another thing, certainly look at some natural supplements. There are certain supplements like saffron. and probiotics that have helped with ADHD. Saffron, they actually did a head-to-head with methylphenidate, which is the number one ADHD-prescribed medication out there. And head-to-head, it performed just as well in just about every area that they tested against an ADHD kid, with the one exception of hyperactivity. So if you talk about focus, if you talk about executive function, all those things… kids performed better or just as well on saffron, which is an ingredient that is used in a lot of foods, but that performed just as well as methylphenidate, the number one prescribed ADHD medication out there.
SPEAKER 06 :
Okay. How does, and just a question that I have, because I know there’s people listening that are probably thinking to themselves, okay, this guy, this sounds great. Troy, you’re on the right track. John, I understand. But at the end of the day, I am somebody that either has that or I’ve got a child that does, and sleep, we talk about that a lot. Sleep is very, very important. But how do these individuals shut the brain off long enough to get a good night’s sleep?
SPEAKER 12 :
Yeah, I think a lot of that comes with having the right diet and the right exercise. So if you’re exercising and you’re getting yourself and your body exhausted, your body will shut down and it will help shut the brain down. And then I think it also helps to make sure that you’ve got different areas that you can focus on. If you want to take in prayer and really pray through things or meditation, those things have shown to have a huge benefit when you start to get caught on that loop and you can’t shut things down. So definitely start to refocus as you’re trying to go to bed. Push away any electronics at least an hour before bed to try to shut off the brain, which is going to be a difficult task, especially for kids. Right.
SPEAKER 06 :
In today’s world, absolutely it is.
SPEAKER 12 :
That’s right. So those are things that you can do to help shut your brain down so then you can sleep and get the rest that you need and probably the best thing to have happen. If you create structure, which we know… Yeah, thank you.
SPEAKER 06 :
My next question I was going to ask you, so go for it. Absolutely. That’s perfect.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yeah, and the structure piece is interesting because after COVID, everybody was used to going into an office, used to going to school. Well, after the COVID lockdowns, there was actually a 26.5% increase in diagnosis in both adults and kids for ADHD. Okay. And it’s no wonder because we got out of our routine. We were in a distractible environment. So if you had kids and you were trying to work at home, it doesn’t work. Or you have a TV or you have other things to do. So it really kind of brought home the point that we need to have structure in our lives. And that can be as easy or as simple as, put out your clothes the night before so you don’t have to make a decision for your kids.
SPEAKER 06 :
I was just going to say that, you know, for mom and dads where you might have kids that suffer from some of this, and I cannot, this part, Troy, I cannot stress enough. And I know that it’s hard because not everybody is super organized. I mean, some people just are, some people are not. I am, but part of that’s because of my weird conditions and so on, and people that know me know this, and I’m a little OCD. Some of that goes along with what we’re talking about. So, in turn, if you have kids that are that way, and Troy, I cannot stress this enough, try to keep things at least for them. Maybe you’re not organized, but they need to be. keep them as organized as possible. And I know this is going to sound really weird, but in other words, when you’re folding clothes, keep colors together and have the clothes folded. Don’t just have them all thrown into the drawer. I mean, the more organized you can be for those kids, and I’m not a therapist by all means, Troy, or by any means, but having been through a lot of this myself, those are things that help.
SPEAKER 12 :
Absolutely, and I think studies back up exactly what you’re saying. So if you… Do that for your kids and you go ahead and plan out their lunch and have the lunch fixed and you have. the breakfast ready the night before, and they’re not having to make those decisions.
SPEAKER 06 :
Right.
SPEAKER 12 :
They’re not straining their brain, and they can focus on the things that really matter throughout their day.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah, thank you. You said it better than I’m trying to get folks to understand that, you know, get them to where they focus on the things that matter and not the things that don’t. And if they get really frustrated on certain levels, having everything all bunched up and not organized just makes that morning for them especially even that much worse.
SPEAKER 12 :
Absolutely. And we all We all know how important it is, especially for our kids, to get a good start to their day. If the day doesn’t start good, it typically doesn’t end good. So make sure that you can take those things off the table, as many of them as you possibly can. And then from the structure standpoint, if you’re sitting down to study or you’re sitting down to work or even if you’re trying to sleep, sometimes playing brown noise, which is just a little bit different than white noise. It’s a little deeper and richer than white noise. It seems to have some anecdotal evidence. There aren’t a lot of studies that show this, but some anecdotal evidence that it tends to help people focus and just kind of put away those distractions. Some of it may be because you can’t hear anything other than the brown noise, so you’re not getting distracted by the side noises, but there’s some belief that that deeper sound is actually triggering a part in our brain that helps us focus a little bit more.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yep. No, and again, for everybody that’s listening, and I will also say, Troy, this is not a one-size-fits-all. Those of you that have kids maybe that are along this line, or you yourself maybe a little bit along this line, you know, find what works for you. Don’t, you know, don’t, don’t, you know, and it’s not a one-size-fits-all, I guess, Troy, is what I’m trying to say, and this is where, again, I by no means am a therapist, so, you know, don’t take my word for it, but At the end of the day, find what works, and once you do, stick with it. Don’t be varying things, I guess is what I’m trying to say.
SPEAKER 12 :
Absolutely, and you’re right. We shouldn’t think that there should be a one-size-fits-all for that because there’s no such thing as a one-size-fits-all with medications. There’s no such thing as one-size-fits-all with our clothes. And if it is, they usually don’t fit very well. So make sure that whatever you’re doing works for you or your child personally or your family member.
SPEAKER 06 :
One other tip I’ll give all you that have kids that maybe are along these lines, and again, as you’re starting to go through some of these routines, and I know for me it helps, and I still do this today. There’s just certain things that for me are like have to. And I know I’m weird, and all of you listening, you know this. Charlie knows this. My wife knows this. I just am. I’m one of those people. Troy, for example, my wife was making fun of me the other day because my sister had gotten there. We’d gone through some things with my dad. My dad just passed away recently, so my sister was over at the house, and I noticed the trash was full. And I’m just this guy. It’s like, okay, it’s full. It’s going out. I can’t look at it. It has to get taken care of, go out to the dumpster, be done with it, come back in. Then I can focus on the other things that are at hand here as a family. But for me personally, I can’t do that when I know the trash is full.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yeah, and I think there are little things like that that each of us have. They’re We have those little idiosyncrasies that we know that we’ve got to do this in order to clear our mind to focus on what needs to be done.
SPEAKER 06 :
So my point, Troy, is when you’ve got kids that are that way, find out what those things are, and instead of sort of negating those, figure out what they are and build that into their normal routines, whatever that happens. Maybe they’re the type of kids where the books have to be all done, stacked, neatly, ready to go, and it’s the same place every single day. If that’s the case, then make that happen is my point.
SPEAKER 12 :
Absolutely. I think that is some very, very wise advice for anybody who’s listening and make sure that that happens. And then I think the final thing is we’ve already kind of talked about it, which is reducing stimulation and distraction. So there is so much stimulation and distraction out there. Limit the video games, limit the time on your phone if you’re an adult, especially before you go to bed, limit the TV watching. and really, really focus on trying to not have that be a big part of your day and maybe finish the day with reading a book, which is a novel idea that a lot of us don’t do much.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yep. No, very well said. And again, everybody’s different. And Troy, I’m not trying to make this a one-size-fits-all, nor would I. And each one of you, this is where a little bit of the learning has to come in, and you’re going to have to really pay attention to those that are around you, including yourself. What are the things that you know at the end of the day really matter? you know, systematically, maybe that’s the way I should say this, really work for you. And by the way, warn those around you, your spouses and so on, that, hey, you know what? I know these are things that I struggle with. You’ve seen me struggle with these things. So this is what I need to do on a daily basis, or I need you to do for me on a daily basis, that at the end of the day makes life a lot less stressful for all of us, myself included.
SPEAKER 12 :
Absolutely. And it is very, very… dependent on your personality your nature and if you’ve got kids you can see it so put together a plan and and stick to it and then if things change then be flexible with it as well and just look for a new opportunity to to make it work for them
SPEAKER 06 :
Okay, lastly, how do folks get a hold of you? You have really, and I know we say this a lot, probably not enough, though, you have really high-quality supplements where there’s people that are looking for certain things that they want in their life, and you’ve got a laundry list of, and I also should say this, and I told this to the listener the other day, you guys are always there. If somebody’s got a specific question of, hey, I am looking for X solution, what do you have? You guys are there to help with that.
SPEAKER 12 :
Absolutely. And you can always call us. You can reach out to us via email, anything you need to do. But you can find us at centurion.health. So it’s C-E-N-T-U-R-I-O-N dot H-E-A-L-T-H. And you can go there and find us. We have a podcast called Frontline Health that talks about different health issues and different fads that may be going on, whether that’s diets or really anything health-related we kind of dive into. So you can find that wherever podcasts are as well.
SPEAKER 06 :
Okay, and one more time, let folks know how to do that, Troy.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yeah, so centurion.health, C-E-N-T-U-R-I-O-N dot H-E-A-L-T-H, centurion.health.
SPEAKER 06 :
Troy, I always learn something when you’re on with us. I enjoy it greatly. Anytime I see your name come up as a suggestion for a guest, you’re here, and I appreciate it greatly, and you’re very gracious to us.
SPEAKER 12 :
Thanks, John. I appreciate it. Always appreciate the time.
SPEAKER 06 :
All right, man. Appreciate you. Have a great evening. And again, centurion.health. And they do. They have some of the best lines of supplements that are out there, and I mean it sincerely. Speaking of health, if you’re looking for a doctor that really a lot of the things that even Troy and I just went through, if you’re looking for somebody that’s thinking that same way and not big healthcare, big pharma, where they just want to give you another drug, Scott is not that way. Call Scott today, 303-663-6990.
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SPEAKER 06 :
All right, closing things out with Troy and ADHD month. It’s Awareness Month. And those of you listening, you know yourselves. You know your kids typically. And when we were kids, a lot of these acronyms, by the way, they didn’t exist. It was called hyperactivity or they were just a busy kid or whatever the case may be. And we really didn’t have the knowledge on some of these levels like we have today. And I also will admit that, you know, there are some individuals that may have a certain level of that, that as time goes by, either they themselves learn how to deal with it or in some cases they may grow out of it. You know, quote unquote. I don’t know if you really ever grow out of it. I will say that I think it’s more of. As adults and maybe even as we get older into our teen years, we just learn how to cope with some of those things. People like us, and I’m throwing myself into that because, yes, I am one of those. I think we learn how to deal with those things a little bit better as we age, although it’s never easy. And I’ll be the first to admit that. Those of you listening that either have what I’m talking about or you’ve got a child that has it, it’s never easy because a lot of folks don’t understand us. They don’t understand even me. how we think and what we do and how we can get all these things done at one time. And how can we switch gears so quickly from one thing to another, to another. And for a lot of people, it can really frustrate them. I’ve had people around me, by the way, where I know for a fact, I have really frustrated them because of the way I do things and look at things and so on. And it’s completely different from what they do. And not everybody gets us. I, maybe I don’t know how else to say it other than that. So in turn, If you’re somebody that’s in that world and you either want a piece of advice or you want to bounce an idea off or you’re thinking, boy, you know, it sure seems like my child might be somebody that you’re talking about. You know what? Send me an email. Send me a text message. I’m always here to help. I’m not a doctor. I play one on the radio quite a bit here with Dr. Scott and others, but I am not a doctor. But I do have a heart, I guess you could say, or a soft spot for individuals like that because I’m one of those. So anytime I see a child that way, my heart goes out to them, especially when you can see that the parents don’t quite get that child and they don’t quite understand what to do with them. Yes, my heart goes out to them because I was that child at one point in time. So if any of you ever need some help along those lines, be sure to reach out. I’m no expert by any means, but I’ve been through it, and I think that sometimes I can help with some of those things. That’s it for today for health and wellness. We have two more hours coming your way. This is Rush to Reason, Denver’s Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560.
SPEAKER 1 :
The Rich Guy.
