This episode of Rush to Reason also marks our Health and Wellness Wednesday where we tackle the seasonal struggles with allergies and share insightful tips for embracing a healthier lifestyle this spring. From dietary adjustments to improving sleep quality, John Rush shares practical advice to boost your immune system and enhance your overall well-being. Tune in for a transformative discussion that merges security and health in a uniquely informative way.
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Welcome to Health and Wellness Wednesdays on Rush to Reason. Fat, drunk, and stupid is no way to go through life, sir.
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I have what doctors call a little bit of a weight problem. I used to grab bear claws as a kid, two at a time, and I’d get them lodged right in this region here.
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Exercise gives you endorphins. Endorphins make you happy. Happy people just don’t shoot their husbands. Let me tell you something you already know. The world ain’t all sunshine and rainbows. It’s a very mean and nasty place, and I don’t care how tough you are, it will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let it. But it ain’t about how hard you hit. It’s about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward.
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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. No, my voice isn’t much better than it was yesterday, but… I sound worse than I really am, so never fear. This time of the year, we’ll get into some of this, maybe even with allergies and some of that stuff, which this time of year is always my toughest. Once I get through these couple of weeks, I’m usually pretty good afterwards. But my biggest issue is, and Eric is with me, Eric Hackett from Safebox Deposit, is a lot of times he’s turned into sinus infections for me, so I have to be really careful. So no fun. No fun. No. It’s life. What do you do? Keep on going, right? That’s right. That’s what we do. All right. Safe box deposits. And again, I always say better than a bank because you guys do things a lot different than what a bank would. And when you were on with us last time, Eric, we talked about how the simple fact is banks aren’t really doing what they used to do. And even the ones that are starting to trim back and not even do that anymore, right? Correct. Yeah.
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Like I said last time, most of the major banks are stepping away from this trend.
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part of their business model um is it is it a space issue a hassle factor a all of the above all of the above um and they can they can eliminate that part of it and the vaults we know aren’t even as big as they used to be so they can just trim everything down exactly so yeah a lot of it’s downsizing brick and mortar okay um and the other parts of it are
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Again, you know, they have limited staff and to pull away a banker or teller for 30, 45 minutes.
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Depending on how long that customer is there, right? Exactly. At that point in time, it’s not cost effective for them to do that. Right. Okay. So they’re eliminating it, meaning there’s an opportunity. You’ve stepped into that space, which I think is a great way to do it, by the way, because I think there’s an opportunity there. Because not everybody has the ability nor wants to store their things at home, right? Exactly. Exactly. So along those lines, for those of you listening, Eric’s got a great deal. You can start at $15 a month for a just basic standard box. You can customize it and, you know, really do whatever you want to from there. And I know, Eric, last time we talked, you guys have got some things even coming down the pike that might be very interesting to some folks. And in other words, you can tailor some things to individuals whereby they’ve never been able to do that in the past.
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That’s right. We have a… A vault space that we’re developing as the customers dictate. Okay. So, you know, if people want additional storage for gold, we can have a safe within the vault that’s fireproof, waterproof. Got it. And within the vault.
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Got it. So it’s almost double protected at that point.
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Exactly.
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Yeah. OK, so for those of you listening again, yeah, whether it’s talked a lot last time about guns, some of you guys have some nice guns, gun collections and so on. And for some of you, depending upon the circumstances and again, what stories you may or may not have. At home, you may want to go ahead and do something outside of your home for lots of reasons. And I can’t, you know, I won’t get into all the reasons here right now, Eric, but there’s a lot of reasons why folks may not want to store those at home. You have the ability to help them with that if they don’t want to. We do.
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And we get to hear all kinds of stories of why they don’t want them at their items at home.
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Well, and for some of you listening, you know, you in the past, you may have done some things where you had a relative or a neighbor or somebody like that that was watching over things. Well, I’ll just tell you, don’t rely on that. Call Eric instead, figure out a way to do that at his place. And I think at the end of the day, you’ll be much more happy when it’s all said and done. And you’re not relying on somebody else, a third party, basically. absolutely let you guys do it so for those of you also uh that are listening uh one thing we should mention too eric is the whole process in other words you do things even like i said earlier better than a bank so even as far as the keys to the box and how you get access to it and so on even that’s different for you than a bank right
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Yes, we had to step up all the levels of our security, all the levels of our management processes in order to become accredited with AXA Financial, which is our insurance provider. And they’re the third largest insurance company in the world. So, yeah, in order to become accredited with them, we had to jump through a lot of hoops. We had to step up our business. So your model changed a little bit in that regard.
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It did, for the better. Yeah, thank you, yeah. Which, for the end user, much, much better, because those of you that are listening that would go ahead and use Eric’s services, yeah, all of that becomes much, much better. What we mean by that is there’s horror stories, and some of you may or may not have heard of some of these, but – You could get the wrong box opened at the bank. Those things have happened, right, Eric? Unfortunately, yes, John.
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You know, if you search safe deposit boxes on YouTube, you’ll see videos of tellers or, you know, inexperienced bankers telling the drilling company the incorrect box. And in that situation, nobody’s on the hook. The bank is completely, they’re not liable for the loss whatsoever.
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So in other words, they drill the wrong box, your stuff could easily walk out the door and nobody’s the wiser. That’s right. Wow.
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Wow. With us, I’d like to say that will never happen, number one. And number two, if anything does happen, our boxes do come with $5,000 of insurance standard on every box. And if you need additional coverage, you can get up to a million dollars.
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Well, in your standards and procedures and what you’re doing along those lines, I can – again, nothing’s ever guaranteed, folks. But I can pretty much tell you that with the operation you’ve got and the standards you’re attaining to and even the insurance requirements we talked about a moment ago, yeah, at the end of the day, no, it’s not going to happen. Right. You’ve got different procedures than what the bank even has as far as that goes. Exactly. Now, one thing I know that we’ve talked about also is timing. So let’s say it’s 9 o’clock in the morning. Somebody wants to get in. What’s the turnaround time on getting in and out?
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Um, the setup process for a new box typically, typically takes around 20 minutes, maybe 30 minutes, depending how long, how long they want to talk. Right. Um, but in order to come retrieve items or drop items in your box, you know, you can be in and out in five minutes.
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Oh, so simple. Easy. Okay. Is that an appointment only, or is that pretty much during the daytime hours you’re there?
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We are running by appointment, and it’s working out very well that way. It’s convenient for the customers. They’re not waiting on other customers.
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They know that at 10.05 I want to be there and pull my stuff.
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Exactly.
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Or add stuff to it or whatever the case may be.
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Yep.
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In a lot of cases, probably adding to, not pulling from. Sure. I’m going to put some more things in there. Yeah. What is the limit? And I don’t want to hold you to anything because I know the business model will, you know, as time goes by and different things happen on your end, I get all that and I’m not going to hold you to anything. But what are some of the, you know, larger plans that you have? In other words, the customization of things where somebody really wants to store a large collection of something, you know, maybe even putting their own safe there, something along those lines. Is that something you’re looking at doing down the road?
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We’re considering that, um, It can be an issue with storage size, size, sizes. So it’s going to come down to, you know, how well we can organize people’s individual items and get customized storage solutions built to accommodate their belongings.
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And the only reason I ask that is because as time goes by and more and more people have lack of trust not only in government but in other things that are going on as well, you know, police and so on, I can see this being huge as it just keeps snowballing and people are like, listen, I’m going to put most everything I’ve got there versus having it at home. Sure. Yep. Yep. We’re starting to see that already. Um, not to get into the weeds, but we’ve also heard of situations where, you know, the authorities show up, they’ve got a subpoena, they want in the safe. We’ve even had safe companies that even give the backdoor code to get in. I’m assuming on your end that somebody’s gonna have to show up with proof of everything before they get into that box period. In other words, it better be legal, uh, subpoena, all that kind of stuff. Otherwise they’re not getting in. Right. Right. Yeah. Um, which by the way is a little different even in your, with, with your home because you’ve got an added layer of security that your home doesn’t have is my point. That’s where I’m going with that. Right.
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Yeah.
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Um, even though your home should, it doesn’t always.
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That’s right. That’s right, John.
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Um,
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Where you being a business, they’ve got a few more hoops to jump through and so on, correct, I’m assuming? Correct. Yeah, that’s what I meant to say, yeah. It’s not like, hey, we’re here at the door and the kid lets the officer in. Now all of a sudden they’re in the home and the gun safe’s sitting over on the side and, and, and. That’s not going to happen at your place is my point.
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Nobody’s getting into our vault other than paying customers.
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That was my point. So for a lot of you listening, way different than you storing things at home is my point. Because I think that for a lot of people, they’re like, well, why would I go off-site? Well, I’m giving you some of those reasons as to why you’d want to go off-site for some of you. Sure. Starting at $15 a month, right? That’s a basic box?
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Yep. That’s a 3x5x22 deep. All the boxes are going to be 22 deep. We have six different sizes available.
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It’s almost two feet deep. You can get quite a bit of stuff in there.
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You can. And then the next size up from that is a 3x10x22, and that’s good for storing documents and things like that.
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That’s a good size, yeah. Okay. Again, 771-303, I should say, 303-771-8000. You can go to safeboxdeposits.com. Don’t forget, you can also go to klzradio.com and find Eric there as well. But Eric, thank you. Sorry for my voice, but I appreciate you being with us.
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No problem. You sound good. I appreciate you.
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All right, and we are back. Rush to Reason, Denver’s Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. Again, sorry about my voice, but we’ll be all right and I’ll make it through. And I appreciate some of the text messages already coming through. And it just happens sometimes. I don’t get this very often, but it just sometimes happens. So not good for a coach and a talk show host where I talk most of the day and I tried to limit my conversations today before coming in. But that’s not always easy to do. So question of the day. Yesterday, who wrote 100 years of solitude? That would be Garcia Marquez. And we said yesterday, I really have no knowledge of solitude. any of that but that is your answer to yesterday’s question of the day today what is the term for particles that mediate the fundamental forces in quantum field theory what is the term for particles that mediate the fundamental forces in quantum field theory. And yeah, this… No, Charlie. Charlie said quarks. No. Quarks, quarks, quarks. That’s what I meant. Yeah, quarks. Sorry, my voice. I’m trying to pronounce things correctly, and sometimes it doesn’t come out quite right. But no, that is not correct, Charlie. But nice try. So you guys can answer that on the RushToReason.com website. Okay. Health and Wellness Wednesday. Yes, I know it’s ironic that I have about half a voice and it’s health and wellness, but hey, it is what it is. And, you know, life goes on and I am not one of those that sits home and stays in bed. It’s just not me. I don’t know what I would do if I ever did that anyways. It would drive me crazy. So I’m just not that person. And frankly, I don’t feel… Let me just say this. I sound way worse than I actually feel. I really don’t feel bad at all. So for those of you listening thinking, geez, John, you sound like death warmed over. Well, I sound like it, but I’m actually functioning and feel just fine. So my voice might be a little bit off, but we will get through today. Never fear. So… Things about spring when it comes to health and wellness. I started a little bit of this last week, but I thought I’ve got a special guest joining us at 3.30. So before we have that guest, I figured I’d get into a few things that everybody can do, by the way. Everybody can do. So embrace a healthy and well, to embrace, I should say, healthy and well spring. A well spring. This has got a typo in it, by the way. It should be two words. Prioritize a balanced diet rich in fruits and vegetables. Stay hydrated. Exercise regularly. Get enough sleep. Protect yourself from the sun. And then also address any seasonal allergies, which I will be the first to tell you that over the last couple of weeks, that’s what’s got me to where I am right now. And I normally do really, really well with my allergies. A lot of you that listen, I’m a big honey guy. I believe in the unfiltered raw honey that you get locally near you from bees that are producing near you and so on. And I’m good about that all year long. But even with that, sometimes things can just get to rolling along, which in my case they did. So focus on fresh seasonal foods. So spring is a great time to enjoy a variety of fresh produce, which can boost your immune system and provide essential nutrients. Increase your fruit and vegetable intake. Aim for at least five servings of fruits and vegetables daily, which, by the way, that’s a lot. Now, keep in mind. You could have several servings at a sitting. So they’re saying that’s not five meals with fruits and vegetables, but five servings. Limit, and we talked about this last week with Troy Duell, limit processed foods and sugary drinks. So opt for whole, unprocessed foods to support overall health and energy wellness. Consider the Mediterranean-inspired meals. these diets emphasize fruits, vegetables, whole grains, beans, nuts, along with healthy fats like olive oil. And yes, there are, as you guys all know, healthy fats versus non-healthy fats. In fact, it’s one of those areas that I’ll try to get an expert on here in the not-too-distant future to really talk about the difference between good fats versus bad fats. And unfortunately, it’s kind of one of those things in our country where We’ve really sort of taken the baby and thrown it out with the bathwater when it comes to fats, like all fats are bad. No, there are some really, really good fats. In fact, if you look at other countries and their diets and their lifespan, and you look at the type of food that they’re actually eating, It’s sort of like, okay, they’re doing things completely the opposite of us, and yet their lifespan and their daily health is better than ours. What gives? Because in a lot of cases, they’re not following the same guidelines that we are. And frankly, what a lot of folks in this country, I think erroneously, and maybe it was on purpose, but I hope it wasn’t on purpose. Although anymore, you never know. But did they do it on purpose or was it just by mistake? But, you know, getting us off of all fats in general, you have to wonder at times. It’s something I’ve wondered. We need healthy fat for our brain. I’ve had many a brain expert on talking about that during this particular segment. And you’d wonder about Alzheimer’s and dementia. And in those particular situations, was it a hereditary thing? Was it a dietary thing? Was there something else that happened along those lines? And again, who knows? The reality, though, is you have to wonder at times, wait a minute, we seem to have more of that now. than we’ve had and yet our diet has changed significantly in my lifetime so figure roughly I’m 60 so in the last you know 50 plus years especially our diets have changed immensely and that last um um line that I talked about a moment ago not the Mediterranean but the processed foods and sugary drinks Man alive. In 50 years, the amount of those that we have now consumed is huge. And I should have had this in my notes. I apologize. I looked it up here the other day. The amount of sugar that the average American consumes in an annual year, it’s a huge number. Way bigger, by the way, than anybody would ever think. It’s a number that, in some cases, you just look at that and think, oh my word, there’s no way I’m consuming that much sugar. But on average, again, some consume more, some would consume less. Average is the average. We all know what that means. There’s some more, there’s some less. But on average, that’s how much. And it’s huge. It’s a huge number. In some cases, not all, but in some cases, it exceeds that person’s body weight. The amount of sugar they take in a year. So, Hydration, that’s my next bullet point here. Drink plenty of water, of course. Stay hydrated. It’s crucial, especially as we go into the spring and summer, but it’s crucial all year long, even in the winter. Most people, we figured this out during COVID, they had a lack of vitamin D and they were dehydrated. That was true for a lot of people. It’s true today. I’ll be honest with you, even since COVID, I don’t think it’s changed a lot. The next one on here is limit sugary drinks and alcohol. Opt for water, herbal teas, and other healthy beverages. Yes, because those other things, alcohol, sugary drinks, which alcohol in some ways is a sugary drink, the way your body processes it, of course. So at the end of the day, drink water, lots of it. Yes, you can have some herbal teas and things like that if you would like, and there’s other healthy beverages as well, but really… Good old water works about as good as anything. So we’ll take a break. We’ll get our next guest on here at the bottom of the hour. Jim Cavini is going to be joining us here in just one moment. Golden Eagle Financial is up next. And Al has his own program, 2 to 2.30 every Wednesday. He was just here a little bit ago. 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This isn’t rage radio. This is real, relatable radio. Back to Rush to Reason.
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All right, welcome back. Rush to Reason, Denver’s Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. Jim Cavaney, make sure I say that right, Cavaney. Welcome, Jim. How are you? Thank you, John.
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Appreciate it.
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I’m glad to be here. You’re an entrepreneur, author, AFIB survivor. Let’s talk about stress because April is Stress Awareness Month.
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Yes, it sure is. It’s also my birthday. Oh, happy birthday. So I’m aging.
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Happy birthday, Jim.
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So I’m aging, right? Stress doesn’t get any easier or worse.
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No, it does not. And stress, and I talk about it a lot during this particular hour each week, it has so many ill effects and yet most people have it.
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That’s correct. That’s correct.
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All right. So, Jim, number one, how do we start managing it better?
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Well, you know, I mean, I think that the key things with stress, depending on, you know, it depends on which way you want to look at this, right? So if you’re looking at this as a stressful situation because you are an entrepreneur, or you’re looking at this issue dealing with stress in general, right? So I’d like to take it from the perspective of, you know, if you’re starting a business or if you’re not, and it’s like, what do you do to manage these things? And I think The key things that we have now at our disposal, which we didn’t have, you know, in some cases, a year ago, two years ago, when we think about the automation that we have in our life, right? Particularly, I strive when I’m talking to a lot of folks about stress and building businesses as well as just in general just existing, is really leveraging the automation that we have at our disposal. You know, whether you pick your, you know… AI of the month you could use. So I particularly use ChatGPT all the time. It helps to automate pretty much everything that I’m trying to do that are really menial tasks. And why is that important? Because it ultimately removes anything that might be just something that’s in my way and I can focus on something that’s a little bit more important. So that’s the number one key thing for us when you’re doing this is to leverage the automation. The second thing is around really developing and having a resilient support team, right? So what is this? So this is a friend group. This is your business partners. This is your family. You know, really having somebody around you that is willing to take on some of the stressors that are, you know, kind of riddling you. And this way they can carry some of the load and you can carry the load for them too when they’re going through their own situations.
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Talk to us about, you know, AFib. You’re an AFib survivor, and I was reading my notes and said AFIB is AFib, and most everybody knows what that means. But those of you, I guess maybe, I think everybody does know what that means, but Jim, maybe for some that don’t, what is AFib?
SPEAKER 12 :
Yeah, so AFib is short for atrial fibrillation, and so it is the number one. cardiac arrhythmia in the world. And right now in the United States, there’s around 6 million patients that are afflicted with the diagnosis of AFib. And believe it or not, in just a short five years, we’re going to be pushing in the United States around 12 and a half million patients will have AFib. So this is a growing epidemic impacting people from across the All age groups because it is becoming a little bit more younger of a disease, but it also really predominantly impacts patients or people above the age of 50 and beyond.
SPEAKER 20 :
Where does it come from or do we know?
SPEAKER 12 :
Yeah, so great question. So AFib, because I want to be very clear, it is not like a heart attack or anything, right? So heart attacks and things like that, that’s all plumbing related. So that’s your vessels. With atrial fibrillation, what ultimately it is, it’s an electrical issue. So you have on the backside of your heart is where a lot of the nerves interface. It’s around the pulmonary veins, and that’s where it originates. And, you know, in some cases, a lot of the AFib comes from our lifestyle. So if we think about obesity, hypertension, diabetes, Stress, obviously stress, starting a business, family life, you know, all that stuff. There’s also familial characteristics as well that start stress and start the AFib. But also, what about our choices? So AFib can be triggered by alcohol consumption. It can be also triggered in some cases by extreme athleticism. So if you’re really into extreme sports, that’s where they’re starting to see younger and younger populations are having episodes of AFib.
SPEAKER 20 :
Makes sense. Makes sense. And then, as you were saying, just the stress in general, which, you know, and I say this all the time on this program during this hour, stress literally is a killer, is it not?
SPEAKER 12 :
It without without question. And I think that if we could all figure out how to really de-stress ourselves, we’d be in a much better place. But that’s the that’s a billion dollar question right there is how do we do that in an effective manner?
SPEAKER 20 :
Got it. Now, when it comes to AFib, for folks that are listening, what are some of the signs of?
SPEAKER 12 :
Yeah, so a couple of key things, and these are not, and I’m going to throw this out to you because this is what I did, and so don’t do what I did type of thing, right? Do as I say, not as I did. And so that situation was when you start to have palpitations, maybe your heart seems to be skipping a beat or beating a little faster than usual when you’re sitting at rest. Those are not anomalies, right? Those are a sign of something that maybe is not right. The other aspect of things is if you’re starting to feel dizzy, lightheadedness, getting up in the middle of the night and feeling like you’re going to pass out. Those are situations that I experience because of my elevated heart rate. Now, a normal resting heart rate can be anywhere between, depending on how athletic you are, between 40 and 60 beats per minute. But for me, my resting heart rate was around 120 beats per minute. So that’s running at a pretty good pace. That’s not normal. So when those situations arise, that’s when you need to go in and get help immediately.
SPEAKER 20 :
And this I do know because I’ve had some family members with this, Jim. This is where they can do different procedures on the heart itself. The pacemakers, by the way, is what is used for some of this as well. And people think, geez, I’m not that old. Well, you know what? It’s not an age thing, is it, Jim?
SPEAKER 12 :
No, it’s not. I was actually 38 years old when I was diagnosed with it, and so I wouldn’t consider myself old then. I’m 51 now, and so I’m feeling great. It’s completely managed, by the way, because of what you just mentioned. There are some procedures that can be done. Cardiac ablation is an amazing procedure, and they’re advancing the way that is done, so it’s a little easier, a little safer to be done. And so we’re seeing significant impacts on quality of life for people going through cardiac ablation. But there’s also cardioversions is when they take the paddle to your chest and reset your heart rhythm based upon that. That’s done all the time as well. And they can also do this, by the way, with medicine, lifestyle changes. and also utilizing right and appropriate diets.
SPEAKER 20 :
Got it. One thing I learned here recently, my dad had a stroke. He’s in his 80s, has Alzheimer’s and some other things, but was talking to his doctor throughout that, and he’s got a pacemaker, so they’re doing all sorts of different checks on his heart and different things, and I did not know, and maybe you probably do know this because you’re way smarter on this than I am, that when you have AFib and things like that going on, Their fear, especially when it comes to strokes, is the blood. It’s not that the heart, to your point earlier, it’s not that it’s not pumping, but it’s pumping irregularly and can actually pool blood in your heart. And that’s where if it pools long enough, it can clot. And that’s where strokes come from, which I did not know.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yeah, that is absolutely correct. Yeah, because the rhythm, right, because the atria are the top chambers of the heart and the ventricles are the bottom, and they are not in sync. Right. So that blood is pooling up in there, and there’s a little appendage, the left atrial appendage, that is where the blood sometimes pools up and starts to clot. And then now all of a sudden if you go into a normal rhythm and you get a complete solid beat, That’s when you can relieve the blood clots off into the brain, and that’s where, unfortunately, you get your stroke. And that, John, is the number one risk factor for anybody with an atrial fibrillation situation. You actually have a 500% increase in having a stroke with AFib.
SPEAKER 20 :
Okay, so, again, I always say there’s no dumb questions, but I learned that by sitting there listening to a neurologist, heart specialist in my dad’s care and learning that. Why don’t we tell people this stuff? I’m 60 years old. Just learned that about three weeks ago.
SPEAKER 12 :
Right, right. Well, you know, I think that’s just the, you know, getting the general knowledge and information out to everybody, it’s hard, right? Because, you know, even for myself, you know, my business, by the way, prior to all of this was I was building life science materials for pharmaceutical and biotech companies. And even though I was really educated, I didn’t really know a lot about AFib because I didn’t need to worry about it, right? And so it’s the out of sight, out of mind. True. You know, until it hits you right in the face, you don’t really start to pay attention. But the key things, which we’re starting to talk about more and more now, thankfully, across this country, is lifestyle management. And all those risk factors that I talked to you about earlier, man, if we could start to take care of our obesity, our hypertension, diabetes, all of those things, then the risk for AFib actually go down. So that’s when people start to really get in tune with what’s happening with their bodies is when they start paying attention to either the good stuff or the bad stuff they’re putting into it.
SPEAKER 20 :
Is there any one particular food item that is worse than another when it comes to some of the things we’re talking about, or is it a combination thereof?
SPEAKER 12 :
Well, I think it’s a combination of thereof, right? And for me, you know, I’ll just speak of it because I was a very healthy individual. I eat pretty good all the time. But alcohol is a significant trigger.
SPEAKER 21 :
Okay.
SPEAKER 12 :
So for me, strangely enough, if I would smell a little sip of vodka or something like that, I would immediately go into a sip.
SPEAKER 20 :
Interesting. Okay.
SPEAKER 12 :
And so, yeah, so that was a big trigger. But for some other people, it could be depending on, like, High fatty foods, sometimes spicy foods can even be triggers.
SPEAKER 20 :
Makes sense.
SPEAKER 12 :
So yeah, people’s triggers are really dependent upon how their body reacts to that.
SPEAKER 20 :
So for all of you listening, here’s the key. Know what those are, of course, Jim. Stay away from those items. And some items, by the way, might be easier to stay away from than others. And as I was talking before we came on with you, the reality, too, is we really have done, in my opinion, since I’m 60, so I’ve watched our food pyramid and things change throughout my lifetime. And the reality is, unfortunately, there’s been a lot of bad and or misleading information that has been given to people And I think that’s part of the problem that we’ve got today, Jim. And what I mean by that is at one point in time, all fats are bad. Well, no, Jim, all fats aren’t bad, as you know. Right. Some fats we need. Our brain health needs certain, you know, our brain needs certain fats. And yet we told people for so long, no fat, no fat, no fat, no fat, fat, bad, fat, bad, fat, bad. Well, it’s not all bad.
SPEAKER 12 :
Right. No, it’s not. And, you know, along this journey, I’ve really started to adopt the whole food diet perspective, right, or lifestyle, I should say, where, yeah, you know, it’s like I don’t feel guilty slapping on some butter on my sourdough bread or whatever it is, right?
SPEAKER 21 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 12 :
It’s just it’s minimizing the amount of ingredients that you eat by the foods, right? So as somebody once said, you know, it’s like don’t eat the things that have a barcode on them, right? Right. Go and enjoy your cashews and your avocados and all of that stuff. And by the way, you can make them very tasty, and it’ll fill you up, right? So there’s no issues with feeling full when you eat this type of a diet.
SPEAKER 20 :
It’s funny. When I was young, I grew up at a time where, and you’ll remember this probably even at your age, butter, bad, margarine, good. Nothing could be farther from the truth.
SPEAKER 12 :
And we grew up on Fleischmann’s. I know exactly. I know it very well. And then now, you know, and I go and I’m the youngest of nine in my family. Right. So now as I go and I see some of my family members and I open up the refrigerators and I’m looking at things like, like, like, I can’t believe it’s not butter. I’m like, you should not be eating that.
SPEAKER 20 :
You’re better off using butter.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yeah, yeah, you’re better off using something, you know, and we, yeah, we use whole butter all the time, and it’s just amazing, so.
SPEAKER 20 :
Yeah, and again, that’s because, you know, again, to my point earlier, we were sort of hoodwinked, if you would, you know, years and years and years ago, and I don’t know exactly by whom, you know, big whoever, big food, big whatever, big processed food, I don’t know, I don’t know who you want to call it or who you want to blame it on, but the reality is a lot of that information was just flat, dead wrong.
SPEAKER 12 :
That’s right, and it’s a shifting scale, and I’m so grateful that things are coming back around so that we can realize and sit up and pay attention to the things that we’re consuming.
SPEAKER 20 :
Going back to AFib, because I think this is a big deal, and I think, to your point, it affects a lot more people than I think most people even realize. And again, I’ve experienced this. I’ve got several family members with pacemakers and have had to have some things along these lines, and I think the thing that people don’t realize is A, it’s not that big of a deal. B, they’re pretty, quote unquote, painless when it’s all said and done, Jim. And by the way, in my opinion, the modern marvel that they are today and what they can do and control and so on, I am amazed at how those things work.
SPEAKER 12 :
Oh, yeah. I mean, all the devices and the developments have really been significant. I mean, I personally wear a pacemaker as well. I don’t need it anymore. It’s no reason for it to be working. It’s just sitting inside of my chest because of, just in case something does go wrong again. But I’m grateful that it’s, you know, I’m extending its battery life, so to speak, right? But yeah, the technology for improving people’s quality of life is there. Just really make sure that you have deep conversations with health care providers to ensure what all of the options are for you so your quality of life can be good.
SPEAKER 20 :
Okay, before we end, reducing stress. It’s a big topic. You and I could spend literally three hours talking about reducing stress. And I know it’s different for everybody because different people have different stressors. But what’s an easy, you know, how should I say this, Jim? What’s an easy way for somebody that really is affected stress-wise, what’s an easy way for them to de-stress?
SPEAKER 12 :
Easiest thing to do is to take a walk. It’s amazing how much, and I was talking to a gentleman the other day, a very close friend of mine who’s hugely into physical fitness, and he just looked at me and was like, can you believe that we are now coming all the way back around to just simply stating walking is the best form of exercise for us from a mental capacity, a physical capacity, as well as just to diminish the stress loads that we have because just get out and get some fresh air. And it makes a huge difference.
SPEAKER 20 :
It’s amazing that we’ve come back full circle to something that, quite honestly, Jim, at one time, because we didn’t have the transportation we have now, and everybody walked everywhere. They didn’t have a choice.
SPEAKER 12 :
That’s right. And now we can go out and walk, right? It’s beautiful to do it. I think we’ve got too much transportation. We probably rely too much on our cars and things, but let’s get out and walk.
SPEAKER 20 :
I agree. Jim, thank you as always. How do folks find you, by the way?
SPEAKER 12 :
Yeah, you can reach me. I’ve got two websites. You can reach me at unlimitedheart.co, as well as I wrote a book, Unlimited Heart, How to Transform Your Pain into Purpose, and you can find that at unlimitedheartbook.com.
SPEAKER 20 :
Awesome. I’ve got that in my notes. I’ll highlight that and make sure we get that up on our website as well. Jim, again, such a joy to talk to you. I appreciate it very much. Thank you, by the way.
SPEAKER 12 :
My pleasure as well.
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SPEAKER 04 :
We are back, Joe. Go ahead, sir. John, I have a suggestion for your voice if it’s not better tomorrow. Yeah. A quick story. I had flown my, you know, I’m a pilot. Yes. So I had flown myself into Las Vegas for a business convention, and I had a little sore throat the first day. I wake up the next day, John, and I have severe laryngitis. I can barely whisper. Wow. And I’m supposed to fly myself home the next day. Wow. On an instrument flight plan, and you can’t fly if you can’t talk. You can’t talk, yeah. Yeah, good point. You can’t communicate with, you know, every time they read you an instrument, well, first of all, you have to announce yourself, and you have to read back every instruction. You have to check in when you, anyway. So I go to an urgent care, and I, you know, whisper my problem, and I have to fly tomorrow, and I have to be able to talk. I’m a pilot. And they prescribed me Predazone, which, by the way, when I looked it up, and it is, and, John, it worked miracles. By the next morning. Really? Really. I, John, I had my full voice back. So if you wake up tomorrow and your voice is not better, go to an urgent care or your family physician and just get prednisone, which is a quarter steroid and orally you take it. And John, within hours, It will reduce the swelling in your vocal cords. Okay. And you will have your voice back.
SPEAKER 20 :
I will definitely do that, Joe. I appreciate that very much.
SPEAKER 04 :
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SPEAKER 20 :
That means a lot. Thank you, Joe. I appreciate that. And, again, those of you that are listening, Dr. Scott, he’s a guy that can assist me with that as well, and I may be calling him later this evening, Joe. So thank you for that tip. That is a great idea. And, yeah, I thought actually this morning wasn’t as bad, just, again, with me. Pretty much talk all day long. I’ve got, you know, coaching calls and other things that I do throughout the day. So pretty much talk all day long. And unfortunately, by, you know, three, it’s not as good as it was at nine. Let’s just say it that way. But at any rate, I’ll survive. Don’t feel sorry for me. I’ll be fine. Don’t worry about that whatsoever. Okay. Jumping back really quick to our earlier notes. And again, I appreciate our last conversation. A guest, Jim, he had a lot of great points when it came to AFib and AFib Survivor and so on. And it’s one of those things where don’t be – how should I say this? Don’t be – alarmed by that there’s a lot of people that have it it’s very fixable it’s one of those things that depending upon you know your age how often it happens and so on the doctors will treat accordingly so there you go okay next bullet point that i had earlier which i’ll end with this and i’ll get into some of this next week probably i’ll finish the rest of this next week got another half to go sleep sleep Prioritize your quality sleep. Aim for seven to nine hours. I’ve talked about that in the past. It depends on you, your body, what you require and so on. I will say that I think for everybody, when you’re sick, you need a little more than you would otherwise. And each of you know exactly what you need as far as that goes. Some require eight or nine a night. Some require six or seven unless you’re sick. So it just depends on you and who you are and what you’re doing and so on. But yes, prioritize quality sleep. Now, I will say this, having bad allergies and then on top of that, getting a sinus infection to boot, which is what I have now. Uh, hard to sleep. I’ll be the first to admit that my sleep quality the last few days has not been great. I’ll be the first one to admit that it is rough because you’ve got stuff going on and your head’s swelled up and you’ve got some drainage going on and so on. And regardless, you try to sleep the best you can, but it’s not easy. So I will be the first to say that in the last, uh, gosh, I hate to say this probably a week, uh, Haven’t had a really good, solid night’s sleep. Now, I’m also one, I’ve told you guys this before, I’m not a heavy sleeper anyways. I’m one of those people that I will wake up at least two to three times a night, period. It’s just me. I wake up for whatever reason. I hear things. I’m a very light sleeper. So I’m not one of those people that go to bed and then wake up and, you know, off you go. And the other weird thing is I can pretty much wake up and tell you what time it is without looking at the clock. which is really mean. And I typically, my routine is I wake up at about 1.15 to 1.30, and then I wake up again about 3.15 to 3.30, and then I wake up again at about 5, and then I make a determination, am I getting up or hanging out in bed for another half hour or 45 minutes? And it just depends on the day and what I’m doing and all of that. But that’s kind of my routine at night. And again, point being, get a good quality night’s sleep. And for everybody, that’s going to be a little bit different time-wise. But you know what you’re… You know, patterns are and so on, and Dr. Kelly talks about this on Thursdays all the time. If you’re somebody that struggles with sleep, turn off the TV, turn off the phone, turn off your tablet, anything with a blue screen, turn that off hour to two before bed, which for some of you means it doesn’t come on at all at night, and head to bed and see what that does when it comes to turning those devices off and see how well that happens to work. So a little piece of advice from Dr. Kelly. Cup Creek, heating and air conditioning. Now, I spoke to them. Actually, I had lunch with them today, and they are getting very busy again when it comes to the AC sides of things, as you can imagine, because a lot of people are starting to turn those on. So my point is, if you know you’ve had a problem even from last year that you did not address, call them sooner than later so that you’re at the top of the list, not the bottom of the list. KLZradio.com is where you find them. Just look for Cup Creek Heating and Air Conditioning.
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