The Pillbox Principle: A Simple Trick to Stress-Free Medication Management

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Coming up on this episode of the
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We have a

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Okay.

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Um, my mom was just recently
diagnosed with dementia.

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Um, and they put her on, she's
on two different medications,

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but someone also told me that an
over the counter prevention, um,

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is a good thing to start her on.

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What do you think about that?

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That's an excellent question.

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William T.

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Hi the world.

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You gonna remember to do that

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now?

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Most of us think we can.

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I said, oh, got this, no problem.

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Two times a day, three times
a day, every other day.

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At some point, you're going
to say, Did I take that?

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Did I take that medicine?

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I think I did.

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I think I did.

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And, you know, and, and here's
what, I can't ask my wife.

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She's got to know whether
I took the medicine or not.

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So she can't help me.

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I don't know.

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Did you?

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My point is, it's complicated.

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It's complicated.

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And so, why not make it simpler?

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Get a pillbox.

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They're cheap.

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Five dollars, five bucks, five, ten bucks.

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Whatever.

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And you can get different size.

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But, what it does is, you put
Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday,

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Thursday, Friday, Saturday, okay?

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Put that pill in that pill box.

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The ones that you take every other
day, you get a bigger pill box.

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Because this is Sunday
morning, Sunday evening.

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You put it in the Sunday morning part,
or put it in the Sunday evening part.

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You can get an even bigger pill box that
has Sunday morning, Sunday evening, Sunday

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night, and you put it in the pill box.

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Why?

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Because you got enough on your mind.

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The last thing you want to worry
about is, did I take medicine

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A on Tuesday or Wednesday?

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And it's hard to remember.

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And then you aren't sure.

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And some doctors will say, okay, if you
missed this, then just skip it, right?

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Just skip it.

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So then you say, okay, do I just skip it?

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I do I just take it?

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And what if I've taken
it twice and don't know?

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And then you, and then
that, what does that do?

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That creates anxiety.

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And what does that do?

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That increases your blood pressure.

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Because now you said, oh
my god, I can't remember.

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Oh, I'm a terrible person, you know.

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And if you're a caregiver,
you feel even worse.

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I'm supposed to be taking care of
mom, and I'm supposed to know even

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worse You You tell mom what to do,
you lay it out for her, she forgets.

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because she has dementia, you come home
and say, Mom, your pills are still on,

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you didn't take it, then you yell at her.

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Mom says, why you yelled at me?

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I put your medication out there
and you didn't take it anyway.

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Didn't remember?

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Well, I didn't know you
wanted me to take it today.

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I thought that was for tomorrow.

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right?

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Get a pill box.

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Get a pill box.

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Even better.

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I say you don't take it in medication.

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You don't need it in medication.

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Christmas is coming up.

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You know, I don't know, a neighbor,
a friend, um, uh, member of

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the family, send a pill box as
a gift and say, God bless you.

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Merry Christmas.

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Merry Christmas!

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Why?

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Because what are you doing?

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You're helping them to take
better care of themselves.

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That's a good thing.

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That's a good thing.

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Because remember the first belief?

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Life is about being of service to others.

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You are serving them, right?

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By buying them a, I don't
know, 15, 20 dollar pill box.

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Okay?

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In summary, dementia is not a disease.

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It is a normal change
of the brain over time.

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Uh, it is an umbrella term for
cognitive or thinking problems.

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Um, Alzheimer's is a disease.

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And Alzheimer's is the most
common cause of dementia.

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To determine what you have or your
member has, um, uh, uh, see your

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physician, uh, and get a good checkup.

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And, and to get a diagnosis,
excuse me, a proper diagnosis.

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We talked about the common symptoms, and
what studies show is that by Managing

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your blood pressure more efficiently, you
put less pressure on the brain, uh, and

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you decrease, like I said, you do have
the gene that's going to create dementia.

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You decrease that, uh, by putting
your brain in a better environment.

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Are there any questions?

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Okay.

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We

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have a couple.

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Okay.

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Um, my mom was just recently diagnosed
with dementia, um, and they put

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her on, she's on two different
medications, but someone also told

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me that an over the counter, um,
is a good thing to start her on.

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What do you think about that, or should I?

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Okay, that's an excellent question.

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About 15 years ago, 15 20 years ago,
the government changed this policy

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for pharmaceuticals that allowed
them to directly market to patients.

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It used to be pharmaceuticals
could not market to patients.

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You'd have to go through your physician.

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And that's why you have now all of these
medications to Prevagen, and everything

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you can imagine, uh, you'll see it online.

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I personally am skeptical about all
of them, um, and so, to answer your

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question, I would first, I would start
with your physician, because a lot

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of it depends on what is her medical
condition, what else is she taking, what

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is she allergic to, or not allergic to.

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I am not a fan of buying stuff because
it's online or on television, um, without

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going through your regular physician.

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Now if your regular physician
says, Oh yeah, go get it.

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That's fine.

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Um, I don't believe that there's
any quick fix for anything.

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Um, I can remember 20, 30 years
ago, it used to be weight loss.

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You take this pill, you're going
to lose 20 pounds in 30 days.

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You know, then they show a picture
of the silhouette and all of a

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sudden, I don't believe any of it.

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I think this is all
part of the same thing.

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Uh, it's to get your money, right?

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So, you have, uh, medical
expertise at your disposal.

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Make a phone call or whatever,
but go through the docs.

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Most of these things you'll find
will say it does this, it does that,

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and then there's the disclaimer
and they cause blah, blah, blah,

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blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

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And if you doubt that,
listen to them on television.

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They say it real quiet and real fast.

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But they talk about all the bad stuff.

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You could get, you could die.

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You could have blah, blah, blah.

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You can get sick and on
and on and on and on.

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So, bottom line, talk to your physician.

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It may or may not work.

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I don't know.

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But, uh, talk to your physician
and see what they say.

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Yes, ma'am.

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Will it, if you live long
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get into Alzheimer's, or what?

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Does it stop, or what?

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That's a good question.

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I honestly don't know.

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Uh, but I do believe that some
dementia just stays dementia.

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Um, I don't believe that all dementia
switches over to Alzheimer's because

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there are other types of dementia.

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Okay.

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Yeah.

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Yes ma'am.

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Is it possible to stay at the same level
of dementia that it may not progress?

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Is it possible that, you know, for you
or for, you know, individuals, some are

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just going to stay at the forgetting
the keys and others are going to.

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I would think that it probably
is for some people because I

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think people do it differently.

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Okay.

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that some people may stay at one
level for a longer period of time

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than others, whereas others may
rapidly go through those stages.

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So I, I think that's possible.

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Yes, yes.

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fatty acid Uh, brain health is,
brain health is important, is it not?

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Your brain health helps you, uh.

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Well, I think health is

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important, and I think if you eat
a well balanced meal, um, a well

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balanced diet, you will get all that.

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Uh, it's sort of in the, in the
category of the the Prevagen type thing.

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Um, uh, the whole, uh, vitamin
industry is based on that.

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Um, and again, I would run all that
through your primary care physician.

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Yes.

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And now things like garlic, um, my
neighbor lived to be 98 and his,

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his, uh, grandson says He, Mr.

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Nash used to just bite a clove, a garlic.

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I said, okay.

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That's pretty tough stuff.

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There.

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There, there are a hundred
different stories because people

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would choose something that
they think makes a difference.

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But my express, express impressions
been, it's never something simple.

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You know?

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It could be a lot of different reasons
that they, maybe the jeans were just

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for them to be 98 may have nothing
to do with what they eat, and I

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think that that may be the case also.

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Okay.

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There you go.

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There you go.

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Everybody has a story.

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Everybody has a story.

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Is some foods more anti, uh, anti
inflammatory conditions that we

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have, you know, like I can't even
think to say the word, turmeric?

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Well, yeah.

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There are different types of vitamins
and different types of foodstuffs.

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Uh, but they all do.

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